12.november

Sweetgrass

“The tagline for the wonderful documentary “Sweetgrass,” the first essential movie of this young year, is “the last ride of the American cowboy.” I suppose the word shepherd, with its pastoral evocations of maidens in pantaloons and lads with flutes, doesn’t have the necessary grit or mythic punch. But the quiet and cantankerous men in this movie, mostly in cowboy hats — one of which is charmingly ornamented with a sheep pin on the crown — are keeping and sometimes losing sheep as surely as Little Bo Peep did.” meir…
nytimes.com

Orginaltittel Sweetgrass
Regi Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Ilisa Barbash
År 2009
Land USA
Sjangre Dokumentar
Lengd 1 t 41 min
Skodespelarar John Ahern, Pat Connolly, John Sweet, Mark Miller, John Jankes
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