The Official Sweetgrass Trailer

An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montanas breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.

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[hondoLS]

@mtnblues I look at it as more of a portrait. Its anthropology.

[dirtydishes118]

Why did they stop taking the sheep to the summer pasture???

[mtnblues]

Some of the bleakest, most directionless and detached moviemaking I've ever seen. The absence of any narrative that allows us to feel the goals of the moviemakers seems to me to be way too artsy to actually deliver the message.

[Crovoltn]

Also one I forgot to mention, since people on here might like documentaries on the change of America in so short a span is Sucker Punch Picture's THE LAST ONE, about Popcorn Sutton, a Appalachian moonshiner; another portion of American life for centuries that has near come to a close. All these documentaries make me want an America where we were closer to natural resources and nature and knowledge of survival and less about knowing what aisle the microwave pizzas are on.

[Crovoltn]

Great documentary. I hope it shows over and over on PBS. It is up there with Atchafalaya Houseboat and Alone in the Wilderness for the beauty and story that connects and resonates to many as a fading, changing America. It is majestic, unspoiled scenery and salt of the earth men and women, in this beauty and yet there is this melancholly aspect that is the dying way of life and the still further move of America from agriculture & ranching to industry & computers. It reminds me of McCarthy novels.

[77blacksheep]

doing the same job here in northern italy these scenes are particularly emotional. really wonderful, unfortunately I have never heard about this film here

[ecopsher]

@massimoarnaudo Its not the camera, my friend, its the filmmaker.

[iscrpy]

lmao, Turn on that "youtube1911" filter thing and watch this.

[reaganvideo10]

I grew up on a sheep ranch 200 miles from there and I am a film maker great movie and I've been kicking myself since I saw this... my god I never imaged anyone would be interested in this subject matter

[Sombahadur83]

Great performances and an all around well done film that I watched on moovi.co.cc.. I would recommand it to everyone..you wont be sorry