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2024

Sasquatch Sunset

Featuring Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough as you’ve never seen them - that is, in elaborate bigfoot character makeup - Sasquatch Sunset provides an unhurried, observational portrait of a year in the life of a sasquatch family, deep in the woods of California.

Director

David Zellner
Nathan Zellner

Runtime

89 Minutes

Country

United States

Classification

MA 15+

Part Thoreau. Part Harry and the Hendersons. All sasquatch.

This description-defying creature feature stars Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough as you’ve never seen them – that is, in elaborate bigfoot character makeup. Spanning the gentle change of seasons across the calendar year, Sasquatch Sunset takes on the quality of an observational nature documentary, punctuated with moments of absurd comedy as our heroes encounter natural hazards and hints of encroaching human civilisation, communicating through a series of grunts, groans, and expressive physical gestures. Accompanied by a psychedelic score and stunning landscape vistas, this cult-hit-in-the-making may offer you transcendence, or remind you of the fleetingness of it all, as you take the trip deep into the woods.

“For anyone who is intrigued by the idea of a movie that serves as both a treatise on despair and loneliness, and a delivery vehicle for extravagantly crass toilet humour, weaponised faeces, absurd sight gags and some rather bracing sexual encounters, this rather wonderful oddity ticks all the boxes.”

The Guardian

“Sasquatches may not exist, but miraculously enough, this movie does, and like the creatures it depicts, it must be seen to be believed.”

Variety

Sundance, Berlin, Sydney, Melbourne.

Film Credits

Director

David Zellner & Nathan Zellner

Year

2024

Country

United States

Language

English

Type

Feature & Fiction

Program Strand

World Cinema

Producer

Lars KnudsenTyler CampelloneGeorge RushJesse Eisenberg & David Harari

Writer

David Zellner

Cinematographer

Michael Gioulakis ASC

Editor

Nathan ZellnerDavid Zellner & Daniel Tarr

Cast

Riley KeoughJesse EisenbergChristophe Zajac-Denek & Nathan Zellner

Music

The Octopus Project

Film Source

Umbrella Entertainment

Genre

Comedy & Nature

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