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Sleeping Beauty

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Directed by Julia Leigh
Australia, 2011
Fantasy, Mystery

Synopsis

Death-haunted, quietly reckless, Lucy is a 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. But soon she develops an increasing need to know what happens to her when she is asleep.

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Awards & Festivals

Cannes Film Festival

2011

Toronto International Film Festival

2011

Transilvania International Film Festival

2012

Vancouver International Film Festival

2011

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Cast & Crew

Articles from the Notebook

In Defense of Julia Leigh’s “Sleeping Beauty”

An appreciative stylistic analysis of director-writer Julia Leigh’s controversial debut feature.
Dan Sallitt
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Movie Poster of the Week: The posters of the 2011 Cannes Competition

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 the…
Adrian Curry
5

Critics reviews

Sleeping Beauty’s finicky clinicism contrasts with Some Call it Loving’s lugubrious artiness, and yet both films are engaged with fantasy role-play in a way that concedes its appeal while hinting at the dangers of such an arrangement. They prove most instructive as a double bill—two very differently angled and yet fundamentally compatible explorations of the gap between female representation and subjectivity, in life and more obviously in Leigh’s case, at the movies.
June 15, 2016
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