Sleeping Beauty
Australia
2011
101 Min
Color
1.85:1
English
Synopsis
“You will go to sleep: you will wake up. It will be as if those hours never existed.”
Death-haunted, quietly reckless, Lucy is a young university student who takes a job as a Sleeping Beauty. In the Sleeping Beauty Chamber old men seek an erotic experience that requires Lucy’s absolute submission. This unsettling task starts to bleed into Lucy’s daily life and she develops an increasing need to know what happens to her when she is asleep. –Official Synopsis
Director
Julia Leigh
Julia Leigh (born in 1970 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian novelist, film director and screenwriter.
She received prizes and nominations for her novels The Hunter and Disquiet. The Hunter was adapted into a 2011 feature film starring Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill and Frances O’Connor. Leigh also wrote the screenplay Sleeping Beauty about a university student drawn into a mysterious world of desire. Leigh made her directorial debut with this screenplay in 2011 Sleeping Beauty starring Emily Browning. Her film was selected for the main competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. –Wikipedia
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wondergirl1973
27Jan13
This film deserves the descriptor "l'écriture feminine," for its cinematic "writing from the body." Overt references to Chantal Akerman and Ingeborg Bachmann make it even sexier! A must see.
killingtime
20Jan13
I’m glad I give it a try. Everything in this movie is beautiful. I like its white/brown tone and slow pace. The interview session is attention-grabbing and I should say that Emily Browning is really gorgeous here :D. She’s believable as that dismal, seems careless (even promiscuous) yet actually sensitive and lonesome Lucy. The way she says, “Will you marry me?” in childlike manner somehow touches me. Sadly, I don’t get its ending. My bad :|
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In Defense of Julia Leigh's "Sleeping Beauty"
By Dan Sallitt on January 16, 2012
An appreciative stylistic analysis of director-writer Julia Leigh’s controversial debut feature.
Julia Leigh's "Sleeping Beauty"
By David Hudson on December 15, 2011
The second round of reviews of Steve McQueen’s Shame was more sobering than the first. Same here.
Movie Poster of the Week: The posters of the 2011 Cannes Competition
By Adrian Curry on May 20, 2011
The end of the world will be beautiful, or so says the Polish poster for Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, quite fittingly on the eve of
Cannes 2011. Julia Leigh's "Sleeping Beauty"
By David Hudson on May 12, 2011
Updated through 5/18. "'Your vagina will not be penetrated. Your vagina is a temple.' With these words, Sleeping Beauty establishes the ground
Cannes 2011. The Trailers So Far
By David Hudson on April 28, 2011
Updated through 5/11. Along with the trailer for Hong Sang-soo's The Day He Arrives, another's just appeared for Kim Ki-duk's Arirang. Both
Sitges 2011: SLEEPING BEAUTY Review
By Twitchfilm.com on October 13, 2011
It’s hard at first to know exactly what to make of author Julia Leigh’s directorial debut Sleeping Beauty. It is both a narrative fiction and a surreal dream/nightmare. It is as indebted to European filmmaking
New Trailer For Julia Leigh's SLEEPING BEAUTY Is Here
By Twitchfilm.com on October 12, 2011
Julia Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty premiered at Cannes and has been picked up for US distribution by IFC films, who bring us this first US trailer for the film. Sleeping Beauty is about a special kind of call
Cannes 2011: SLEEPING BEAUTY Will Be Coming to UK
By Twitchfilm.com on May 19, 2011
Premiering in the Cannes competition over the weekend to mixed critical reception, the sexual dynamics of Julia Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty nonetheless earned the film US distribution via Sundance Selects
Cannes 2011: SUCKER PUNCH's Emily Browning Stars In Psycho-Sexual Thriller SLEEPING BEAUTY
By Twitchfilm.com on April 29, 2011
Lemony Snicket’s Emily Browning is all grown up. And while Zack Snyder glammed up that fact in Sucker Punch, first time director Julia Leigh is playing male fantasy to a much darker end with her Cannes
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Disappointing
By MR. Universe on December 14, 2011
A character study, Where the character we are supposed to be interested in and follow to learn more about. Is incredibly dull. Don’t get me wrong Emily Browning gives a brave performance and is an… read review
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