This is one of those slice-of-life documentaries, which thrusts you into the middle of an under-represented community and just leaves you to draw your own conclusions. We join the mountain shepherds of the Pyrenees. Life seems quite tough. It’s made tougher still by the re-introduction of the brown bear.
The goals of re-wilding and bring locally extinct species back are clearly good. But the shepherds are understandably a little bit pissed off. We follow their work, their lives, their troubles, as they deal with the ever-present threat of the bears. However much they’re told the bears are solitary creatures that rarely attack livestock, the trail of mangled sheep carcasses tell a different story.
As a documentary it was fine. Probably too long. I’d have preferred something like 3 different tails of re-wilding conflicts. Instead, we get nearly two hours on the mountains.