Sleep Furiously

Name: Sleep Furiously
Genre: Documentary

United Kingdom · 2009
1h 34m
Director Gideon Koppel
Starring
Genre Documentary

Set in a small farming community in mid Wales, a place where Koppel's parents - both refugees - found a home. This is a landscape and population that is changing rapidly as small scale agriculture is disappearing and the generation who inhabited a pre-mechanised world is dying out. Much influenced by his conversations with the writer Peter Handke, the film maker leads us on a poetic and profound journey into a world of endings and beginnings; a world of stuffed owls, sheep and fire.

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Boxoffice Magazine by

Beautifully shot but more than a little sterile.

Chicago Reader by Andrea Gronvall

A film that throbs with life while keenly noting its passing, this is an ode to the village that welcomed - and let thrive - the director's refugee parents.

Time Out by David Fear

Gideon Koppel's free-form portrait of a Welsh farming community may be the most subtly poetic piece of cine-anthropology to come down the pike in eons.

Slant Magazine by Joseph Jon Lanthier

An affectionate, if uncomfortably stagnant, portrait of moribund rural culture.

Variety by Leslie Felperin

Picture's tone is far more poetic than polemical.

The New York Times by Rachel Saltz

Intermittently absorbing, if deliberately stripped of drama.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

A lovely film, but maddeningly complacent.