Product Description 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 film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, and vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed. SPECIAL FEATURES: - Mastered on HD - Audio commentary by filmmakers Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor - Additional scenes - Fan photo gallery - Theatrical trailer - 5.1 Soundtrack - Booklet featuring essay by film critic Robert Koehler Review "Magnificent... The first essential movie of this young year... A graceful and often moving meditation on a disappearing way of life." --Manohla Dargis, The New York Times"A spectacular and visceral experience." --Ted Fry, Seattle Times"Intensely beautiful. It could widen your soul." --Ty Burr, Boston Globe
