SWEETGRASS

Year: 2009
UK: Dogwoof Pictures
Directors: Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Country: USA
UK: 101 mins
UK Certificate: NC
UK Release Date: 22 April 2011 (Limited Release)


Synopsis

"The last ride of the American cowboy."

SWEETGRASS is an unsentimental elegy to the American West, following 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.