Sleep Furiously review (U)
A beautiful documentary about life in rural Wales
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BY: Sam Wigley May 20th 2009 FILED UNDER: Cinema reviews
The spirit of Dylan Thomas hovers over this lyrical documentary about a Welsh farming community.
Village life revolves around the herding of sheep, the walking of dogs and the regular visits from the mobile library – yet Gideon Koppel’s film is a good deal artier than your average episode of Countryfile.
Full of majestic long-shots of tractors and farm animals crossing bleak expanses of hillside, Sleep Furiously quietly impresses with its poetic vision of a world threatened by modernisation.
It’s unusually tender and eccentric, and Koppel’s personal sadness at the passing of this way of life is palpable.
Print User Reviews (1)
Stefanher
Gorgeously beautiful, understated almost to extremes, at times very funny & very moving. Don't expect at thrill a minute- go to it expecting an extremely slow moving documentary about a dying community & you'll be impressed. I think it has been overpraised in some quarters but 4 stars seems a good compromise.
User rating: 4
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