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Apr 12, 2024 · It took a second screening to better appreciate what the Zellners brought to the screen, but for some, that might not be enough to get past some of the movie’s weirder notes. “Sasquatch Sunset” is a wildly ambitious project that wrestles with reality and fantasy, the familiar and unfamiliar, to stir our emotions and longing for natural ...
Rated: D+ Apr 22, 2024 Full Review Eliza Janssen Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Without too many big ideas (or even dialogue) to latch onto, Sasquatch Sunset can feel more like a deranged acting exercise, or ...
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- David Zellner, Nathan Zellner
- R
- Comedy, Action, Adventure
- Sasquatches Are Real, And They Have Feelings
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By Clint Gage
Updated: Jan 29, 2024 3:17 pm
Posted: Jan 27, 2024 4:28 pm
This review is based on a screening at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.
I waited two days, sat through three other movies (good ones, too) and challenged two colleagues to talk me out of this, but here I am still thinking about Sasquatch Sunset and ready to tell you that it’s a masterpiece. From writer/director brothers David and Nathan Zellner, the film follows a family of sasquatches over the course of a year in their lives. If that premise sounds too silly to be taken seriously… good. That’s part of the point.
It has the feel of a movie you’ll need to talk someone into going to see and that is, frankly, one of the most exciting things about Sasquatch Sunset.
An exercise in commitment to a vision at every step of the way – from casting big names only to cover them in sasquatch prosthetics and have them grunt through the entire film – Sasquatch Sunset is truly a unique and bizarre piece of cinema. It’s the type of film that, like the family of sasquatch in its story, shouldn’t exist but does, and we shou...
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Apr 11, 2024 · Positioning the sasquatches as threatened rather than threatening, “Sasquatch Sunset,” as its title suggests, is an oddball meditation on one species’ decline. Maybe even our own. Rated R ...
Apr 5, 2024 · Richard Brody reviews David and Nathan Zellner’s new film, about a group of four Sasquatches in the Pacific Northwest, starring Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg.
TOP CRITIC. Consistently weird and frequently wonderful, “Sasquatch Sunset” uses its high-concept premise to consider a host of themes: collective living, coexistence with nature, longing ...
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