‘Sweetgrass’ – story of the last Montana sheepherders

From the opening images of "Sweetgrass" http://sweetgrassthemovie.com/ – gorgeous stills of rural Montana and then a dreamy sequence of sheep eating in the snow – it’s obvious that filmmakers Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor want to tell a story unfettered by familiar documentary techniques. There is no narration in this 101-minute movie, no soundtrack, almost no explanatory titles and long stretches without dialogue. What there is are sheep, approximately 3,000 of them, bleating, grazing, scurrying, giving birth and dying under the watchful, often fed-up gaze of their cowboy caretakers.

Tamara Straus, Special to The Chronicle

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