Sleep Furiously

Guardian“The film has richness and an unshowy compassion...” Koppel's movie ends with a powerful epigraph: "It is only when I sense the end of things,/ that I find the courage to speak/ the courage, but not the words"...

The Independent“Koppel's own camerawork shows that he's a painter as much as a film-maker..” But all these elements of regret also reveal an anger and a determination to preserve at least fragments of a disappearing order: that sort of spirit doesn't necessarily have to be seen as conservative nostalgia...

The Telegraph“Koppel though has created a work of art that generates its own sensorium...” Here are details, textured and intimate, but individually of little consequence or magnitude: a rain cloud passing over the top of a hill; a lardy fellow straining to herd sheep - much to the amusement of watching women...

Channel4 Film“Delicate, dignified but also undeniably dull...” There is no commentary in Sleep Furiously, nor narrative as such, nor beginning, nor end - just an evolving montage of vignettes and landscapes, elegantly shot in 16mm, skilfully edited to evoke the rhythms of an idyllic if vanishing way of life...

The First Post“Not yet reviewed...”

National Post“Not yet reviewed...”

Little White Lies“Refuting categorisation as a documentary...” Acting as his own cinematographer, Koppel allows Sleep Furiously to unfold in long, static and resolutely unhurried takes, treating the camera as, in his own words, “a microscope through which I can explore the world”...

Total Film “It’s unusually tender and eccentric...” 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...

New York Times Movies“Not yet reviewed...”