Sweetgrass Poster

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 yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.    

Produced by Ilisa Barbash
Recorded by Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Sound Editing and Mix / Ernst Karel
Colorist / Patrick Lindemaier
101 min, 35mm, 2009
"The first essential movie of this young year...
Magnificent... Wonderful... Astonishingly beautiful..."
Nature overwhelms the screen and even minds."

—Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

"A one-of-a-kind experience.
At once epic-scale and earthbound"

—Ronnie Scheib, Variety

A Cinema Guild Release | © 2009 All Rights Reserved | sweetgrass@me.com.