With John Ahern, Elaine Allestad, Lawrence Allestad [and others]. Filmed 2001-2003, in Sweetgrass County, Stillwater County, Wheatland County and Park County, Montana. Originally produced in 2009. Special features: audio commentary by filmmakers Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor; additional scenes; fan photo gallery; theatrical trailer. Includes insert with an essay: "Sweetgrass" and the future of nonfiction cinema / by Robert Koehler. Originally produced in 2009. Special features: audio commentary by filmmakers Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor; additional scenes; fan photo gallery; theatrical trailer. Includes insert with an essay: "Sweetgrass" and the future of nonfiction cinema / by Robert Koehler.
Summary:
"An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly beautiful film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, and vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed"--Container.
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