Sasquatch Sunset
A year in the life of a singular family.
- Released:
- Runtime: 89 minutes
- Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
- Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Riley Keough, Nathan Zellner, Christophe Zajac-Denek
- Director: Nathan Zellner, David Zellner
Comments
- daveroseman-35849 - 3 July 2024
This Species is Full of Feces
Off we go to the Pacific Northwest where we follow along of hairy cryptids known as Sasquatches. We travel with an Alpha Male (Nathan Zellner), Female (Riley Keough), Male (Jesse Eisenberg) and Child Christophe Zajac-Denek) as they go back their day to day activities trying to survive and deal with isolation and the encroachment of Man. I knew going into this film I wasn't going to see the next Citizen Kane or Godfather. What I did watch was a Jack Links commercial written by Seth MacFarlane with a little Johnny Knoxville thrown in. It did have some funny scenes and an occasional heartwarming scene or two. But this was overshadowed by such lewdness and an infatuation with bodily functions. They really dropped the ball in my opinion they should have made like a Mockumentary and played into the things that so called Bigfoot hunters claim Squatches do. The Zellners should have watched the Travel Channel for a day or two. Overall I was disappointed in this film. - petdav - 22 May 2024
Bizarre
I don't honestly know how I'm supposed to take this movie. It has moments of immature slap-stick comedy and moments of touching intimacy. If there's a display of film-making mastery in this movie, it's in the fact that without dialogue and minimal facial expression, it succeeds in making us care about every member of this family of Sasquatches. In some ways, despite appearing to be a comedy on the surface, the movie is a tragedy.
At a time when communication feels goal-oriented and almost too direct, this movie leaves a lot up to interpretation and inference from context. Without words, we have to assume the characters intentions through grunts, subtle gestures, and context. And given the apparently limited range of the facial prostheses, there isn't a lot to go on. And yet, it works.
That said, it would be wrong to take it too seriously. It's irreverent and absolutely wild in every sense of the word. Sometimes it's a bit gross, but all in all it's enjoyable. Is it a commentary on the encroachment of modern technology on the natural world? Probably a bit. But I think it's mainly just fun.
I don't know why I like it as much as I do, but I can't help it. It's weird and I had fun watching it.
