Sleep Furiously

Name: Sleep Furiously
Genre: Documentary
Released: July 29, 2011
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 64

2011

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Microcinema International | Release Date: July 29, 2011 | Not Rated

Summary: The film is a meditative study of a small farming community in mid-Wales that observes the rhythms of country life, and the rhythms of the monthly visits of the mobile library. But it is a life that is changing – the village school is about to close, mechanization is replacing many of the old ways, congregations are dwindling, but theThe film is a meditative study of a small farming community in mid-Wales that observes the rhythms of country life, and the rhythms of the monthly visits of the mobile library. But it is a life that is changing – the village school is about to close, mechanization is replacing many of the old ways, congregations are dwindling, but the village show and the sheepdog trials carry on. Koppel’s interest in the eccentricities of life is simultaneously affectionate, moving and very funny. (New Wave Films)… Expand

Director: Gideon Koppel

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 94 min

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Andrea Gronvall

Aug 11, 2011

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. Read full review

David Fear

Jul 26, 2011

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. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Aug 10, 2011

A lovely film, but maddeningly complacent. Read full review

Joseph Jon Lanthier

Jul 26, 2011

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

Michelle Orange

Jul 26, 2011

A lingering, mildly lyrical look at village life, Sleep Furiously does for the mobile librarians of Wales what "Sweetgrass" did for the shepherds of Montana. Read full review

Rachel Saltz

Jul 28, 2011

Intermittently absorbing, if deliberately stripped of drama. Read full review

Boxoffice Magazine Vadim Rizov

Jul 28, 2011

Beautifully shot but more than a little sterile. Read full review

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