Sasquatch Sunset is a fantasy/drama about four sasquatches in the Pacific Northwest. The film follows the four over the course of a year in a series of vignettes, following their mating, eating, and sheltering habits as they contend with challenges and the encroachment of humans.
Jesse Eisenberg, Riley Keough, Christophe Zajac-Denek, and Nathan Zellner all put in intricate, interesting, non-verbal performance(yes, there is zero dialogue). At times it does play as an experiment, a theatrical exercise, but other times as a surprisingly impactful exploration of community and behavior. There is a lot of truth here, some laughs, and some things that go to far but overall its refreshingly unique and displays a pretty profound courage on the part of the actors.
Visually the film is patient, evoking the natural world and these sasquatches living in it. It feels rich and peaceful and when the sasquatches encounter a road or trees marked for lumber we, along with them, feel the affront. The score is subtle and helps bolster the filmmaking's intentions, filling out what is a relatively sparse audioscape.
There are some particularly gross scenes, some of them work some of them don't, but they are ambitious, brave. Similarly the comedic moments are a bit hit-or-miss and yet overall the tone is one of honesty and adventurousness. If still, lets not mince words, incredibly bizarre.
Certainly not for everyone but the first truly singular piece of US cinema in 2024.
See It.
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