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.

| Aug 29, 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.

| Jul 6, 2018

Zzzzz...

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 14, 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.

| Sep 8, 2011

"Sleep Furiously" is a lovely film, but maddeningly complacent.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 11, 2011

A paean to a way of life that, regardless of Dylan Thomas' furious injunction, is going gently into that good night.

| Jul 29, 2011

Beautifully shot but more than a little sterile.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 29, 2011

Ultimately, the first impression given - of a place both familiar and strange - is the only impression offered. It's not enough.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 29, 2011

A certain polite withholding, even if it masks some firm conviction or desire, seems to be a coin of the realm in Trefeurig, so it may well be apt that Koppel often films in a register very close to this one.

| Original Score: B | Jul 28, 2011

If you love Dylan Thomas (who doesn't?), then you will love this film.

| Jul 28, 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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 27, 2011

A lingering, mildly lyrical look at village life.

| Jul 26, 2011

A paean to the dignity of ritualized traditions that aims for poetic calmness, but more often smoothes its subjects into deliberately emblematic somnambulism.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 24, 2011

This film is best taken as a visual ode to an all-but-forgotten way of life.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 7, 2010

Great claims have been made for it, which I cannot endorse, Koppel's stated intentions being infinitely more arresting than the completed film.

| Jun 2, 2009

Sleep Furiously may be the most beautifully elemental documentary film to have emerged in Britain in over a decade and I can't applaud it loudly enough.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 29, 2009

Even though it's sometimes picturesque and involving, it's also so achingly slow and indulgent that it will test even the most patient viewers.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 29, 2009

This is as fully formed and unique a debut movie as you could ever hope to see.

| Original Score: 5/6 | May 29, 2009

Images of wistful sadness - lone figures with plodding dogs on rain-lashed hillsides - are interlaced with humour and moments of skin-prickling beauty that leave the audience undone.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 29, 2009

The film has richness and an unshowy compassion, its grammar and pace adjusting to the tempo of the countryside.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 29, 2009