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‘Sleep Furiously’ is a powerfully sincere film and a promising start for first time director

Sleep Furiously Directed by Gideon Koppel Wales, 2011 From movement comes rest, humble beginnings comes fading memories, and from individual stories comes a sense of community. Thus is the subtle tone and slow pace of Gideon Koppel’s Sleep Furiously, telling the unbiased story of a small Welsh farming community making the best of life by …

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‘Sleep Furiously’ an essay on empty spaces, smallness, and the pleasure derived from community.

Sleep Furiously Directed by Gideon Koppel Wales, 2011 Is it possible to create an essay film without words?  Gideon Koppel may have found the formula in his mostly silent, gorgeously photographed Sleep Furiously.  But an essay on what? Set in a small farming community in Wales, Koppel’s richly textured film basks more in its minutiae …

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