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Sleep Furiously

Play trailer Poster for Sleep Furiously 2008,  1h 34m,  Documentary Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 71% 28 Reviews Tomatometer 67% 250+ Ratings Popcornmeter
71% Tomatometer 28 Reviews 67% Popcornmeter 250+ Ratings
The filmmaker journeys into a world of endings and beginnings; a world of stuffed owls, sheep and fire.
Sleep Furiously

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Critics Consensus

This poetic and tender portrait of a Welsh village is a slow moving yet elegantly accomplished British documentary.

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Deborah Ross The Spectator Aug 29, 2018
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. Go to Full Review
John Banville Sight & Sound Jul 6, 2018
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. Go to Full Review
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Aug 11, 2011
3/4
"Sleep Furiously" is a lovely film, but maddeningly complacent. Go to Full Review
Phil Hall Film Threat Nov 14, 2011
1/5
Zzzzz... Go to Full Review
Cynthia Fuchs PopMatters Sep 8, 2011
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. Go to Full Review
Rex Roberts Film Journal International Jul 29, 2011
A paean to a way of life that, regardless of Dylan Thomas' furious injunction, is going gently into that good night. Go to Full Review
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Leia W Dec 28, 2017 It's the opposite of an action flic. To enjoy this you have to let pictures speak. I am biased l admit because the film captures so many of my own feelings about rural Wales but l know this is strictly minority viewing. See more
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Gideon Koppel

Director

Mike Figgis

Executive Producer

Serge Lalou

Executive Producer

Gideon Koppel

Producer

Margaret Matheson

Producer

Aphex Twin

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Movie Info

Synopsis The filmmaker journeys into a world of endings and beginnings; a world of stuffed owls, sheep and fire.
Director
Gideon Koppel
Producer
Gideon Koppel, Margaret Matheson
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (DVD)
Nov 15, 2011
Runtime
1h 34m
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