SummaryThe 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 sho... Read More
Directed By:Gideon Koppel
Sleep Furiously
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Aug 11, 2011
80
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.
Jul 26, 2011
80
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.
Jul 26, 2011
63
An affectionate, if uncomfortably stagnant, portrait of moribund rural culture.
Jul 26, 2011
60
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.
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