High Praise for New Film About Montana Shepherds

t’s not every day that a made-in-Montana documentary gets exalted by the New York Times, or that filmmakers spend eight years finishing a movie about aging cowboys driving sheep to an alpine summer pasture. But Sweetgrass, debuting today in New York, manages to win in both categories, portraying the hardships and beauty involved in moving 3,000 sheep into the Absaroka-Beartooth mountains—one last time. Times reviewer Manohla Dargis calls Sweetgrass “the first essential movie of this young year” and describes it as “wonderful,” “astonishingly beautiful,” and “a graceful and often moving meditation on a disappearing way of life.”...read more