I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

For I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, director Mike Hodges re-teams with Trevor Preston, the respected British television writer with whom he made a series of documentaries for ITV back in the 1960s. The film also brings the director together again with actor Clive Owen, the star of his previous film, ...more

Director Mike Hodges returns to the territory of his acclaimed debut, Get Carter, with I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, in which a former gangster seeks vengeance for his dead brother. But the newer film is much more contemplative, in the manner of Steven Soderbergh's The Limey, which itself paid homage to Hodges' earlier work. Hodges' elliptical treatment of Trevor Preston's screenplay allows the narrative strands to come together gradually, and continually thwarts genre expectations with its somber, ...more