Like a rock skimmed across the water’s surface until it slows and quickly sinks, Bitterbrush only portrays the obvious of what’s involved in being a cowpoke responsible for rounding up a herd of cows and calves across a vast territory and bringing them in.
In the most mundane manner, we see what it takes for two young women to commit themselves to toiling day after day for a full season to get a big job done.
But that’s about all there is to this remarkably unrevealing documentary, as filmmaker Emelie Mahdavian does little to draw the young women out, missing a chance to explore why they chose this life and what they’re made of.As this writer can attest to, having ridden cattle round-ups in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado on multiple
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