Sleeping Beauty
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A haunting erotic fairy tale about Lucy, a student who drifts into prostitution and finds her niche as a woman who sleeps, drugged, in a ‘Sleeping Beauty chamber’ while men do to her what she can’t remember the next morning.

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SLEEPING BEAUTY [2011]
Directed by Julia Leigh
Australia / Color / English
Not Rated; 101 min

Jane Campion presents SLEEPING BEAUTY, the bold and provocative directorial debut of Julia Leigh, an official selection of the Cannes, Toronto and Chicago film festivals. Featuring a phenomenal breakthrough performance by Emily Browning, this coolly shocking retelling of the classic myth poses its heroine as a rarified sex-worker, confronting ideas of feminine sexuality with bravado and precision.

“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.

“Gorgeous, opaque and disturbing in roughly equal portions… A riveting experience all the way through.”
Andrew O’Hehir, Salon

“Thrillingly original. By turns exquisite and down-to-earth.”
Karen Durbin, Elle

“*CRITICS PICK* Compelling, haunting.”
Time Out New York

“This will divide audiences as much as “The Tree Of Life,” but it’s a brave and beautiful calling card for both filmmaker and star. Drink it up, sit back and think of a very different Australia. “
Anna Smith, Empire

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