A canticle to the Old West: SWEETGRASS captures avant-garde cowboys’ overland journey, altercation bags of sheep, as they move beyond Montana’s Absaroka-Beartooth Mountains, amidst sweepingly affecting vistas and amaranthine skies. Ronnie Scheib in Variety describes the blur as “a mad cantankerous amid Howard Hawks’s RED RIVER” and an animal annual of vanishing drifting traditions, with “a birr of Tex Avery’s DRAG-ALONG DROOPY.” Twenty-first aeon cowboys alarm their mothers on corpuscle phones and accuse about backing weather, ornery sheep and beat horses.
A conspicuously admirable film, SWEETGRASS is at already funny, alarming and endearing. At aboriginal the passive, down-covered sheep assume absolutely adorable; over time we appear to accept the affronted cowboy who screams profanities at this sea of stubborn, bleating beasts over which he struggles to reign.
Director : Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Ilisa Barbash
Starring : Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Ilisa Barbash
Studio : Cinema Guild
Genre : Documentary
Running Time : 1:45
Release Date : January 6, 2010
Posted on December 31st, 2009 by w4rrior87 - 239 views
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