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Well, I didn't actually knew what to expect, but in the end it was a quite entertaining experience.

The Zellner brothers introduced the movie to the audience at the Berlinale and said it probably is the weirdest Sasquatch movie. It is.

While some scenes are excessively obscene, we had some good laughs over the blunt portrayal of this family living in the woods. You will probably say WTF a dozen times. I understand that some people walked out of the theater. However, in my opinion, the movie manages to balance obscenity, humor and drama quite good.

Personally, I was pleasantly surprised how much story one can tell without using a single spoken word, and with only little facial expression. I believe the actors tried their best, but one could see that the costumes limited overall movement and expressions.

I would probably not pay 15 bucks again to watch the movie in a theater, but it wasn't too bad after all. A solid 7/10.

Movies that provide us with an inside look at the lives of communities different from our own can show us just how much alike - and not alike - the constituencies of those cultures truly are from our own. It's especially intriguing when such films cross species lines, examining societies of beings different from ourselves, an undertaking tackled in the latest project from the acting-writing-directing duo of David and Nathan Zellner. Known for such offbeat releases as "The Art of Self-Defense" (2019) and "Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter" (2014), this time out the filmmaking siblings present a documentary-style look at a year in the lives of a bigfoot family of four inhabiting the forests of Northern California. The camera follows them through a variety of everyday situations not unlike what we as humans go through, only in a totally different milieu. The film features an array of comedic and dramatic circumstances to which we can all undoubtedly relate, often on a very "earthy," unrestrained level, involving activities in which we all engage but rarely talk about. Told in four acts, this release beautifully captures their experience of life in the woods, with exquisite visuals of Northwestern landscapes and diverse forest wildlife, along with curious, entirely natural expressions of individuals discovering the myriad elements of a world that they have come to believe is their own. But is it? As they come upon scenarios that are anomalous from what they have typically known, they must learn to adapt when evidence emerges that their world could be drastically changing - even vanishing - before their very eyes. In that sense, then, the film quietly delivers a strong environmental message (aptly timed for an Earth Day release) that we should heed in light of the unsettling experience of this picture's unique protagonists. While the film's sequences at times become somewhat repetitive and feature more than their share of undoubtedly base humor, this offering is nevertheless entertaining, clever and thought-provoking, enhanced by its stunning cinematography, emotive original score, and stellar makeup and prosthetics. Despite these assets, however, some have dismissively and capriciously compared this production to an extended Saturday Night Live sketch or a parody of the opening sequence of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968). But those analogies unfairly sell this one short as a vehicle that will simultaneously make viewers both laugh and think. With an economical 1:28:00 runtime and a fine cast of actors portraying the quartet of uncannily prescient primates (Jesse Eisenberg, Riley Keough, Nathan Zellner, Christophe Zajac-Denek), "Sasquatch Sunset" makes an intriguing watch, provided that viewers give it a fair shake. Indeed, if we're ever to reach a new level of understanding about those who are different from us and with whom we share this world, not to mention the impact we have on one another, we should make an effort to grasp what this offering is trying to tell us - while we still have the time to do so for both of us.

Rating: 6.1 Overall, a decent film that mimics a nature documentary as we use to lens of the camera to look into the lives of sasquatches and how they parallel humans, but this movie was not really for me because of the excessive use of bodily fluids and grotesque comedy.

Decent to Pretty Good Direction (The direction on a macroscale is pretty good as they set the scenic shots well and show the beauty in secluded nature; the direction on a microscale is decent as they get a lot out of their actors through action-based acting (because there's no dialogue); storytelling is very slice-of-life (making it feel somewhat like a documentary), but there are some moments where they try to move the story forward)), Pretty Good Acting (Pretty Good from the cast (The whole cast acted as a unit to portray Sasquatches going about their day, and showed how they do have a good amount of humanity to them)), Decent to Pretty Good Story (The concept is interesting as it's a slice of life look into sasquatches (which helps give them humanity and show parallels to humans); the plot structure is not really present as the movie tries to be mostly slice of life, while also shoving in shock and grotesque humor; flow between sequences is pretty bad as lot of the movie feels disjointed; character writing is decent as it helps show the parallels between humans and sasquatches), Decent Screenplay (the humor is pretty overt as they try super hard to shock and show grotesque subjects (with this sometimes hitting and sometimes not); the symbolism is decent as it's about looking at humanity from the lens of Sasquatch; the foreshadowing is nonexistent), Pretty Good Score (Used well in the establishing shots), Pretty Good to Good Cinematography (Used well in the scenic/nature shots as it helped make the movie seem like a documentary), Pretty Good Editing (The way they cut the movie gave it a nature doc feel), Pretty Good Sound (Helped show the actions of the characters), Decent Visual Effects (Uses Practice effects well), Pretty Good Production Design (The nature setting is nice and helps show the wilderness), Very Good Makeup (Good use of full body makeup), Makeup (Good use of full body makeup), Very Good Costumes (Good use of costumes to make the actors look like sasquatches), Costumes (Good use of costumes to make the actors look like sasquatches), Pacing is very slow as a lot of the movie drags with its elongated/repetitive scenes, Climax is decent but just feels like a continuation of the rest of the movie, Tone is very similar to nature documentaries (with some comedic flavors), This movie was really not for me with the excessive bodily fluids and grotesque scenes; saw the Texas Premiere at SXSW.

I had a real hard time trying to figure out a score for this film, much less an overall impression of it. Frankly, you just don't see film like this any more.

I can understand if some audiences don't get it, mainly because it feels like the Star Wars Holiday Special on a severe drug bender. But once you peel away the Sasquatch mating rituals, birthing scene and other idiosyncrasies that make up this experience, you start to piece together the meaning the Zellner brothers were most likely seeking. They posit the reason why we don't see sasquatches is because they just don't exist anymore.

Like the last days of a failing empire, this very well might be the last Sasquatch family in the Pacific Northwest. Some people won't like the reasoning behind it, but it's the usual blame falling on deforestation and human infringement. I'm sure some might derive more meaning, but this is the base understanding I took away from this film.

Sasquatch Sunset is definitely not for everyone, but if you are a curious film goer, you might find something interesting in this bizarre and completely one of a kind movie. Just be ready for weird nature stuff....because I sure wasn't.

I for one like many have always been a believer and have wondered about "Bigfoot". And these creatures have lives from simple motions to struggle and survival to live. This unique, and different fun entertaining film "Sasquatch Sunset" from the Zellner brothers showcases and capitalizes on just how a family and group of Sasquatch live for a year thru the seasons. With no humans or human dialogue present in the film the backgrounds are the woods, and mountains of perhaps the pacific northwest or northern California. Thru the scenes you see how they bond and take care of one another by building living nest with tree limbs. Also the sounds and Bigfoot calls of knocking against the trees are so revealing and touching means of communication. Also eating plant life to survive and using the forest rivers for relaxing and cleansing helps all of the beings. Dealing with bobcat, dear, and mountain lion as it's a battle of predator vs. Prey! Overall the scenes are blunt, brash, even funny with intimate obscene scenes of Sasquatch style love! Still the movie is entertaining in a unique way, as "Bigfoot" believers will get a joy watching this. Fun and neat was seeing how this tied in with the "Bigfoot Museum" in Willow Creek. Thru it all this film is a take of survival and love Sasquatch style.

It's possible to see "Sasquatch Sunset" at an almost anthropological level, with four humanoid creatures in a series of scenes with them eating, fornicating, walking, defecating, sleeping, etc. That could be boring.

But start with the early scene of two of them chewing on grasses in an alpine meadow-- and think of it as breakfast. This is the start of their day. After that you're watching what their daily life is like, and it is familiar. Soon an interstitial title appears, "Spring," and the time scale has opened to a year. Eventually, you stop thinking about the timeline and start thinking about the fragility of existence.

There is no backstory, but the quartet is taken to be the last of their species-- and they know it. They have a signal to call for help: banging a fallen branch against a tree trunk in a series of four distinct sounds that echo through the forest. It tells us that they were once part of a clan, and a tribe, members of whom have died in the recent past. Perhaps there were five Sasquatch a year ago, or ten. Every death brings them closer to extinction, and every time their SOS isn't answered, it's a reminder that they are alone.

The movie is brilliantly structured, with credible costuming, able performances, and a score that pretty successfully mixes folk and New Age-y forms.

But my favorite parts have to do with the glimmers of intelligence and progress. We see nascent engineering skills when a log traps one of them. One member has the urge to count things, but without numbers he has trouble keeping track past two or three. At one point he holds a fossil or rock that petrified into rows of ripples, interrupted in the middle by a dark horizontal flaw. He begins counting down from the flaw, struggling to find a way to keep track, and you realize that someday he may notice there are ripples both above and below the flaw, which will require negative numbers.

But the best scene, by far, is when they happen upon a road in their forest. Do your brain a favor; see the movie.

A "nature" film follows four Sasquatch living in their habitat. Going through the natural cycle of the seasons and mating season, they travel through the woods. As they migrate across the region, they sense a change, encounter strange things, and experience tragedy.

This movie is supposed to be a comedy, which may be appropriate if you are really into dark humor. However, the movie has no dialogue, which can cause your attention to drift. Quite a few WTF moments will make you laugh and take a moment. The movie's underlying premise is how humans affect the environment and natural habits. This movie is not for everyone, but it will impress you if you can get through it. Stream it for something different.

Critics are praising this pile of garbage.

The movie is everything wrong with cinema.

It's not interesting or funny, yet critics are praising this steaming pile of trash

The Geek (1971) is a better entry in the genre of Sasquatches than this crap

I have seen hundreds of thousands of movies, this can seriously be categorized as one of the worst. It follows the lineage of Gigli, Freddie Got Fingered and Baby Geniuses.

Jessie Einsenberg is a horrible actor with only saving grace is Zombie Land. This is another movie that his inability to act adds to the unwatchable nature of this movie.

If critics praise this, there are only three possibilities.

1. Bleecker Street paid them off

2. Critics hate cinema

3. Critics have a fetish for Sasquatches.

As a huge Bigfoot fan since a kid there's nothing like this that I've seen other than quest for fire. But this is so much more emotional imo.

It works like a nature documentary showing EVERYTHING disgusting, and beautiful.

May be impressively okay or bad for some but for me this was magical and masterful. Never thought I could connect with Sasquatches grunting and not talking for a whole movie. Amazing experience that is just as emotionally powerful as it is hilarious and thoughtful to the impact of humanity on nature.

Beautiful cinematography and acting by all four, and the music??!? Wow I could write forever about this. Most unique movie of the year.

This film features apelike sasquatches as they try to survive. They seem to be the last of their kind and headed for extinction . There is a lot of gross behavior to be seen and some have walked out of theaters. To be honest , I do not think early humoids acted thos way but it is still worth a watch . The music is very good behind the small cast actors. The bigfoot costumes are good too fully naked jeez this is for onlyfans exclusive bigfoot edition. 95% of people won't like, hate in fact. And I agree on many factors. It's pretty gross to watch and not a ton happens, though I think it's wrong to say there's no plot. It's just not a plot in the way we think about a plot. But things do change and stuff does happen over the course of the movie. If you want something very different and sometimes gross check this out. This was like me cussing the film on that road scene what did they do and why wasn't law enforcement could of kill them, only two saquatches were killed in this movie.

WTF? This is quite possibly the worst movie I have ever watched. This was a waste of time, gas, and brain cells that it took to watch this movie. Luckily I didn't pay for it, but please save your money and don't watch this movie in theaters, idk how anybody is praising this movie. It started off really slow and your just thinking to yourself "I wonder what's going to happen" and then it just plays out really slow and boring. I waited the whole movie for something really interesting to happen, expecting a plot twist or some kind of reveal. This movie is exactly what the description says it is, a year in the life of sasquatch, nothing more, nothing less.

Before deciding to see 'Sasquatch Sunset', know this: there are no human characters and no lines of dialogue in this highly-unusual film. It's about a small clan of mythological Bigfoot creatures living in the Pacific Northwest.

It plays out more like an anthropological National Geographic film than a piece of mass entertainment. Whatever it aspires to, 'Sasquatch Sunset' is an unwatchable mess. Plotless, it depicts scenes of unnamed sasquatches doing what comes naturally: they pick their nose, pleasure themselves, copulate, defecate and give birth in sometimes gratuitously graphic ways. Reading back that sentence, I can't believe this is an actual movie being shown in theaters.

There is major talent associated with this curious project. Jesse Eisenberg, who usually plays smart characters like in 'The Social Network', has to play dumb - real dumb. He's one of the titular sasquatches, unrecognizable under layers of makeup and fur. One would never realize he was in the film without the credits. Another sasquatch is Riley Keough, again totally unrecognizable. This will undoubtedly be the most curious entry on their IMDB profiles, especially since these roles could easily have been played by stunt performers.

I saw this film at a screening near New York University and it occured to me that most NYU Film School student projects would probably be more interesting.

While I give credit to all involved for trying to do something radically different than the usual multiplex fare, 'Sasquatch Sunset' is a weird experiment gone horribly wrong.

If you want to see four people dressed up as bigfoot making grunting noises, eating, throwing poop, acting horny, aggressively grunting and a movie that is weird, gross, and bizarre, this is the movie for you.

The Zellner brothers literally made a movie that is just feels like a troll or something of a s**tpost made on youtube, but you know what, I love it.

The humor is gross, weird, and bizarre but I found myself laughing quite a bit for just how out there the movie is. Including it's wonderful soundtrack, gorgeous camerawork, strange performances and surprising, social commentaries explored (if you think of the movie too deeply).

The fact this movie was released in over 800 theaters is wild. Truth be told, people will hate this movie and there were quite a bit of audiences in my theater who walked out

Realistically I don't know what to properly rate this movie but screw it, it's a 10/10 for me.

Caught the movie 'Sasquatch Sunset' at a sasqwatch party at Alamo Draft House with the family (all adults) Still don't know how I feel about this film, but I now officially know TOO MUCH about certain aspects bigfoot mating behavior. The expression of the BigFoot as simple/stupid creatures is contrary to how I view a being that has supposedly thrived mostly unseen by man to the present day. I always picture sasquatch and much more knowingly sophisticated and cunning. Believe the writers were the same as the Fast & Furious Franchise as the sentence structure, pacing, and choice of vocabulary in Sasquatch Sunset are eerily similar to dialog between the Lefty and Dominic characters from Fast and Furious. Overall worth the time.

There are some beautiful things about this film. The photography is one of them. The music is also fitting. The rest is meh.

I guess one could dig deep and try to find as many meanings as one wants into this movie and that is certainly something that we should cherish. Spoon-feeding movies are not the solution. However, I'm pretty sure we can find a balance between an on-the-nose flick and this.

It is categorized as a comedy/drama/action/adventure, depending what website you check. Truthfully, if you have the sense of humor of a 12 year old, I can see the fun in it. However it becomes old quite quickly. When it comes to the drama...I don't know? When something bad happens is because the creatures are just stupid.... And when it comes to action or adventure? The most action-like moments happen off-screen and how can there be any sense of adventure when there is no sense of purpose. Meaning, direction, discovery, and desire?

There is no momentum, there is nothing going on but eating, having sex (or trying to), and pooping. I guess these are all worthy things to explore in a film, but making a feature film out of this is a bit ridiculous. I could this being a short film from some filmmakers trying to establish their style and showcase their skills, but a feature film? What for? We had at least a dozen eating scenes and none were substantially different than the others or had any particular implication.

I still give it a 5/10 because, as mentioned at the beginning, it is a movie that looks and sounds good. Too bad there is no story or rhythm or anything going on really.