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‘Sasquatch Sunset’ Review: Hard to Believe the Zellner Brothers Could Pull Off an Earnest Art-House Bigfoot Movie
Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg appear (under heavy makeup and a whole lot of hair) as Sasquatches in this absurdist and occasionally poignant comedy.
Believe it or not, “Sasquatch Sunset” is told in such a way that you feel for these beasts, experiencing genuine concern when the latest addition to the family stops breathing, and possibly even shedding a tear when Eisenberg’s “Tender” character (who takes time to interact with the local wildlife) gets trapped beneath a giant log. Shot on digital, but lit to look like a classic Disney nature feature — in a nod to an era when studios were routinely making movies about wild animals — the widescreen film manages to be achingly beautiful at times. That’s a feeling keenly enhanced by Austin-based experimental band The Octopus Project’s sublime atmospheric score, which lands somewhere between folk guitars around a campfire and the trippy cosmic stylings of Werner Herzog collaborators Popol Vuh.
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