Sleep Furiously

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.

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.

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

Sleep Furiously returns again and again to this idea of transition: seasons change, cows go out to pasture and come in for milking, piglets are born, lambs follow their mothers as dogs herd them. Farming traditions are dynamic.