Sweetgrass (film)

Sweetgrass is a 2009 documentary film that follows modernday shepherds as they lead their flocks of sheep up into Montanas AbsarokaBeartooth mountains for summer pasture. It was directed by Lucien CastaingTaylor, a Harvard anthropologist, and produced by his wife Ilisa Barbash. The title derives from Sweet Grass County, one of several in which the film was shot.

Rotten Tomatoes gave 97 and certified Fresh. Film critics have generally praised the film as an anthropological work of art, focusing on its aesthetic minimalism, such as a lack of music and narration. The film is a New York Times Critics Pick, a Washington Post Critics Pick, and Manohla Dargis of The New York Times described it as the first essential movie of 2010.

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