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"****"
Jason Solomons, Mail on Sunday

"A MASTERWORK"
Gavin Lambert, The Guardian

"OUTSTANDING"
The Observer

"CROUPIER and I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD...
The Best British Films of Their Respective Years."
John Patterson, THE GUARDIAN, London

"CLIVE OWEN may be even more unnervingly cool here than he was in Mike Hodges' 2000 sleeper CROUPIER."
Terrence Rafferty, THE NEW YORK TIMES

"AS DRY AND DANGEROUS AS GUNPOWDER."
Xan Brooks, THE GUARDIAN, London

"Hodges gives the last decade's worth of London gangster cliches a reviving twist."
Jonathan Romney, THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY, London

"A SUPERB PIECE OF MODERN NOIR."
UNCUT, London

"COMPELLING VIEWING. The term 'film noir' hardly begins to do it justice. Overflowing with resonant ideas."
James Rampton, THE SCOTSMAN

"A CONSUMMATE WORK OF ART
WORTHY OF ENDLESS CONTEMPLATION"

Gary Indiana, FILM COMMENT (May/June Issue '04)

“The night-blue dark of I’LL SLEEP WHEN I’M DEAD stays like a shadow I didn’t know would rise above me to haunt. To want more of a dark thing – that’s real filmmaking.”
Tess Gallagher

“Hodges re-emergence as the master of the dark, uncompromising thriller shows no sign of abating.”
Christopher Tilly, HOTDOG

“Hodges isn’t interested in happy endings.
He’s interested in re-invigorating your
soul and spirit .”
John Patterson, 'MIKE H0DGES: BEYOND GET CARTER' BBC4

“QUINTESSENTIAL HODGES!
Anyone familiar with GET CARTER or CROUPIER will recognize the director’s painstaking attention to detail and his need to look beyond the surface of things into a subterranean world. Like Raymond Chandler, Hodges prefers atmosphere to plot and psychological realism to genre. Consequently his film is in constant tension with its noirish qualities. SENSITIVE PERFORMANCES ALL ROUND.”

Stephen Chibnall, SIGHT AND SOUND

“A BRITISH CLASSIC. A MATURE WORK. Hodges masterful touch conveys how deep run the rivers of regret.
RICHLY ATMOSPHERIC"

Ray Bennett, The Hollywood Reporter

“RIPPLES WITH ATMOSPHERE.
Mike Hodges and Clive Owen have re-teamed for another
noir that favors mind games over tricks of style.
Some of us would pay money just to watch Owen
sit on a box for two hours and he doesn’t disappoint.”

Katrina Onstad, THE NATIONAL POST, Canada

“A TAUT GANGSTER FILM.
Mike Hodges and Warren Zevon, whose song, I’LL SLEEP WHEN I’M DEAD, was borrowed for the film’s title, are artists celebrated for their sympathy with the dark souls dwelling in the underworld of crime and despair.”

THE GLOBE AND MAIL, Toronto

“A BRILLIANT GANGSTER FILM,
I’LL SLEEP WHEN I’M DEAD is marked by unusual psychological moves and a noble directorial approach.”
PARLIAMENT GAZETTA, Moscow

"Hodges' elegant direction is underscored by the bluish, cold views of London streets and a cracking ensemble of riff-raffs and lost loves (Malcolm McDowell, Ken Stott, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Charlotte Rampling) providing a fine counterpoint to Clive Owen's understated hard man."
DAZED AND CONFUSED

"CLIVE OWEN gives a powerful portrayal of a character who has mastered a sense of zen stillness."
Andy Dougan, EVENING TIMES, Scotland

 

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"Compelling Viewing. The term 'film noir' hardly begins to do it justice.
Overflowing with resonant ideas."
- James Rampton, THE SCOTSMAN