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The French- and Corsican-language drama centers on Joseph, one of the last goatherds on the Corsican coastline, who receives a visit from the Mafia.
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
Marcello, perhaps the wealthiest of all goatherds and on his way to becoming Emily's new boyfriend, lives near Rome.
—Ursula Schmied, Glamour, 17 Sep. 2024
The indie fantasy comedy about a cursed goatherd (Steinbruner) who turns to a witch (Stronach) for help, is very much in the tradition of films like Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Princess Bride and, of course, The NeverEnding Story.
—John Russell, Peoplemag, 26 July 2024
This creature, native to Syria and other parts of the Middle East, comes with a face only a goatherd could love.
—Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
Devastated by her husband’s death, young widow Trudy escapes to its Blue Mountains and falls for a taciturn goatherd imbued by the highlands’ mysticism.
—Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 1 Aug. 2023
Chapters are organized around journeys, in which Finlay, an Englishwoman, goes as far afield as Leh, in Kashmir, to speak with a pashmina goatherd, and Papua New Guinea, to watch Maisin women paint tapa, a cloth made from bark.
—The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
The goatherd has lived a humble existence away from his wife and three now-adult and college-educated daughters for 21 years.
—Clara Germani, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2020
Next to the highway, always the signs of old Mexico, goatherds shuffled in the tall grass beyond the guardrails, the goats kicking up dust.
—Paul Theroux, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2019
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
Marcello, perhaps the wealthiest of all goatherds and on his way to becoming Emily's new boyfriend, lives near Rome.
—Ursula Schmied, Glamour, 17 Sep. 2024
The indie fantasy comedy about a cursed goatherd (Steinbruner) who turns to a witch (Stronach) for help, is very much in the tradition of films like Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Princess Bride and, of course, The NeverEnding Story.
—John Russell, Peoplemag, 26 July 2024
This creature, native to Syria and other parts of the Middle East, comes with a face only a goatherd could love.
—Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
Devastated by her husband’s death, young widow Trudy escapes to its Blue Mountains and falls for a taciturn goatherd imbued by the highlands’ mysticism.
—Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 1 Aug. 2023
Chapters are organized around journeys, in which Finlay, an Englishwoman, goes as far afield as Leh, in Kashmir, to speak with a pashmina goatherd, and Papua New Guinea, to watch Maisin women paint tapa, a cloth made from bark.
—The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
The goatherd has lived a humble existence away from his wife and three now-adult and college-educated daughters for 21 years.
—Clara Germani, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2020
Next to the highway, always the signs of old Mexico, goatherds shuffled in the tall grass beyond the guardrails, the goats kicking up dust.
—Paul Theroux, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2019
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“Goatherd.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goatherd. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.
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goatherd
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goat·herd
ˈgōt-ˌhərd 
: a person who tends goats
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