I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

Press Quotes

“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 BBC 4

"Hodges’ film exudes the same reptilian menace he showed in GET CARTER."
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

“QUINTESSENTIAL HODGES!
Anyone familiar with GET CARTER or CROUPIER will recognize the director’s
painstaking attention to detail and the rhythm of sequences, his preference for an
enigmatic male as the still center of the action and his need to look beyond the surface of things into a subterranean world.
There are neon-washed streets, shimmering nightscapes and a resolute investigator. But the film offers much more than pastiche. Like Raymond Chandler, Hodges prefers atmosphere to plot and psychological realism to genre. Consequently his film is in constant tension with its nourish qualities.
The casting demonstrates Hodges’ desire to ring the changes on the stock characters of gangster stories. Malcolm McDowell’s playing against Clive Owen provides a fruitful
clash of acting styles. Hodges draws out sensitive performances all round, not least from Jaimie Foreman as the devoted Artful Dodger and Jonathan Rhys Meyers as the chancer who comes a cropper.”
Stephen Chibnall, SIGHT AND SOUND

‘With Hodges’ masterful touch conveying how deep run the rivers of regret, I’LL SLEEP WHEN I’M DEAD may take its place with GET CARTER as a classic British gangster film. 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

"Although they share similar themes, these two films are vastly different.
I'LL SLEEP WHN I'M DEAD is more like a mirror image of GET CARTER in that, unlike "Jack Carter," "Will Graham" is trying to reject a life of violence rather than embrace it ...
Like all of Hodges' films, it will stand revisiting a time or two."
Andy Dougan, EVENING TIMES, Scotland