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Critics Consensus: This poetic and tender portrait of a Welsh village is a slow moving yet elegantly accomplished British documentary.
Critic Consensus: This poetic and tender portrait of a Welsh village is a slow moving yet elegantly accomplished British documentary.
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"Sleep Furiously" is a lovely film, but maddeningly complacent.
Ultimately, the first impression given - of a place both familiar and strange - is the only impression offered. It's not enough.
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.
A lingering, mildly lyrical look at village life.
This film is best taken as a visual ode to an all-but-forgotten way of life.
This is as fully formed and unique a debut movie as you could ever hope to see.
It is dull, spectacularly dull but it is also peculiarly compelling, affecting, atmospheric and sublime. It's like a poem which, on the surface, may not look up to much but can still instantly evoke and, dear readers, let me tell you this: I was evoked.
Now more than ever we need films such as this: grave, measured, subtly comic and beautifully wrought, free of polemic and yet offering a new way of seeing that is as old as Arcady.
Zzzzz...
Sleep Furiously returns again and again to this idea of transition: seasons change, cows go out to pasture and come in for milking, piglets are born, lambs follow their mothers as dogs herd them. Farming traditions are dynamic.
A paean to a way of life that, regardless of Dylan Thomas' furious injunction, is going gently into that good night.
Beautifully shot but more than a little sterile.
Lyrical , poetic, impressionistic picture of rural Welsh life which oozes warm emotion from every frame. Ode to a way of life that is disappearing day by day. That feeling of sad nostalgia never overwhelms the director, though and he has crafted a thing of beauty.
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