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At once tender and unsentimental, Sweetgrass gracefully captures the beauty and hardships of a dying way of life.
All Critics (60) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (58) | Rotten (2) | DVD (1)
The images, including sheep on the move up near vertical hills, are remarkable, the landscape spectacular, the unsentimental account of back-breaking, backside-aching work impressive. Apr 23, 2011 | Full Review…
The images, including sheep on the move up near vertical hills, are remarkable, the landscape spectacular, the unsentimental account of back-breaking, backside-aching work impressive.
Philip French
This beautiful and hypnotic documentary shows the agony and the ecstasy of herding sheep up into Montana's Beartooth mountains for the summer pasture. Apr 21, 2011 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
This beautiful and hypnotic documentary shows the agony and the ecstasy of herding sheep up into Montana's Beartooth mountains for the summer pasture.
Peter Bradshaw
If there's anything we can learn from the creatures here, it's that any day in which you don't get stripped of your coat or eaten by a bear is probably a good one. Jul 22, 2010 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
If there's anything we can learn from the creatures here, it's that any day in which you don't get stripped of your coat or eaten by a bear is probably a good one.
Jason Anderson
There are audience rewards for sticking with the herd and its lonesome cowboys. Jul 16, 2010 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
There are audience rewards for sticking with the herd and its lonesome cowboys.
Stephen Cole
Instead of rounding up information, this documentary about an arduous sheep drive across Montana is driven by the beauty of the landscape. Jun 17, 2010
Instead of rounding up information, this documentary about an arduous sheep drive across Montana is driven by the beauty of the landscape.
Joe Williams
It's a gorgeous and, believe it or not, riveting documentary...about sheep. May 21, 2010 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
It's a gorgeous and, believe it or not, riveting documentary...about sheep.
Michael O'Sullivan
Strange to relate that one of the year's most striking cinematic experiences so far is a documentary starring 3,000 sheep. Jul 6, 2018 | Full Review…
Strange to relate that one of the year's most striking cinematic experiences so far is a documentary starring 3,000 sheep.
Kieron Corless
Whatever one decides, [director Lucien] Castaing-Taylor deserves a great deal of respect for documenting a dying tradition. Mar 8, 2018 | Full Review…
Whatever one decides, [director Lucien] Castaing-Taylor deserves a great deal of respect for documenting a dying tradition.
Steve Erickson
[The directors] portray something indelible by capturing the rancher's old-hand ways. Sep 24, 2014 | Full Review…
[The directors] portray something indelible by capturing the rancher's old-hand ways.
Nicolas Rapold
The talk is sheep. And normally, I'd say baa humbug to sitting down with lambs for 90 minutes. But any apprehension. abates under the power of a documentary that's as beautiful as it is informative. May 25, 2013 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
The talk is sheep. And normally, I'd say baa humbug to sitting down with lambs for 90 minutes. But any apprehension. abates under the power of a documentary that's as beautiful as it is informative.
Al Alexander
As it progresses it begins to strike a subtly elegiac, unsentimental tone... Jun 13, 2011 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
As it progresses it begins to strike a subtly elegiac, unsentimental tone...
Alistair Harkness
Unadorned by narrative or score, it's an unsentimental portrayal of a fading way of life and the peaceful creatures under its charge. Apr 28, 2011 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Unadorned by narrative or score, it's an unsentimental portrayal of a fading way of life and the peaceful creatures under its charge.
"Sweetgrass" is a stunningly photographed documentary about the process of sheep farming in Montana. The movie keeps the human subjects at a distance, giving us little chance to really get to know any of them. Instead, the natural scenery and the sheep are the true stars here and the one who looks directly into the camera knows that. In fact, he would like to file a complaint with his union representative about the working conditions. Yeah about that. Not much has changed in this profession since the 19th century. The cowboys still ride horses, camp out under the stars and rely on dogs for a lot of help in keeping the sheep in line. Cell phones are about the only indication that this is now the 21st century. And I should warn those of you expecting lots and lots of footage of cute sheep roaming around the mountains that there is a gruesome shot of an eviscerated sheep which speaks to the difficulty and frustration for the cowboys which is expressed in the most colorful language heard since "Deadwood" went off the air.
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