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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | Jul 6, 2018

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

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

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 29, 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.

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

A lingering, mildly lyrical look at village life.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

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

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.

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

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

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

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

Sleep furiously is a film whose lower-case title is in perfect keeping with the understated but tremulous mood it manages, with rare skill, to create and to maintain.

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

A poetic, profound and contemplative journey into a world of endings and beginnings.

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

Koppel's film transcends the pedagogic to touch the celebratory, the holistic, the mystical.

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

The elegiac tenderness and pictorial beauty of Gideon Koppel's film becomes, by degrees, quite compelling.

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