Addicted to Sheep

The whole family are terrific company and Magali captures both the beauty and the bleakness of the environment in which they live and work.

If you love staring at sheep for long periods of time, this may be your Citizen Kane.

Addicted to Sheep is the rather racy title of a charming documentary about a year in the life of a family on a hill farm in the north Pennines.

There was a danger here that [director Magali] Pettier could have made a glossy film for townies in search of escapism, but she does not shy away from showing the downsides of the farming life.