Documentarian Emelie Mahdavian zeroes in on the friendship and professional partnership between two young women who work as range riders, herding cattle across vast stretches of the American West.
Sweetgrass. Like those earlier docs, its action revolves around the traditions and hard work of herding livestock — in this case the rounding up of cattle from mountainous wildlands. Mahdavian and her intrepid collaborators have a sure feel for the sweeping expanse of their story’s Idaho terrain.
But as the filmmaker traces a season of range riding for two exceptionally skilled and resourceful young women, her documentary becomes more than a portrait of against-the-elements fortitude; it poses piercing existential questions about purpose and independence, particularly for women choosing work that has long been deemed the exclusive province of men.
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