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SLEEPING BEAUTY is a fascinating depiction of a young woman's reckless decent into a shocking world of erotic desires.
Lucy (Emily Browning) is a young university student possessed by a kind of radical passivity. She lets a flip of a coin decide the outcome of a random sexual encounter and she displays an uncomplaining patience when facing the repetitions of her various menial jobs that fund her studies. One day she answers an ad in the student newspaper and interviews for a job to be a lingerie waitress. But she is secretly being initiated into a world of strange new work one where she will have to give into absolute submission to her clients by being sedated becoming a Sleeping Beauty.
Eventually this unnerving experience begins to bleed into her daily life and she finally develops the will to break the spell by discovering what happens to her while she sleeps. With a fearless performance by Browning, Leigh creates a bold cinematic vision one where Lucy, both in her clandestine sexual adventures and in her mundane daily existence, lives with the same unflinching and brutal honesty.
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.
Haunting and provocative, Julia Leigh's powerful vision is one of the most startling debut features of recent years. Featuring a fearless performance from Emily Browning, Sleeping Beauty is set to be one of the year's most anticipated and celebrated releases.
Original Release
06/10/2011
US Release
11/01/2011
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Bridgette Barrett | Dinner Waitress |
Rachael Blake | Clara |
Hannah Bella Bowden | Dinner Waitress |
Emily Browning | Lucy |
Peter Carroll | Man 1 |
Les Chantery | Driver |
Benita Collings | Dinner Guest |
Michael Dorman | Cook |
Eden Falk | Thomas |
Anni Finsterer | Train Riding Hairdresser |
Directors
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Bridgette Barrett | Dinner Waitress |
Rachael Blake | Clara |
Hannah Bella Bowden | Dinner Waitress |
Emily Browning | Lucy |
Peter Carroll | Man 1 |
Les Chantery | Driver |
Benita Collings | Dinner Guest |
Michael Dorman | Cook |
Eden Falk | Thomas |
Anni Finsterer | Train Riding Hairdresser |
Mirrah Foulkes | Sophie |
Robin Goldsworthy | Flatmate |
Vernon Hayman | Dinner Guest |
Chris Haywood | Man 2 |
Paul W. He | Student Boyfriend |
Hugh Keays-Byrne | Man 3 |
Amit Kelkar | Lecturer |
Sarah Kinsella | Dinner Waitress |
Ewen Leslie | Birdmann |
Tammy Macintosh | Work Colleague |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Alan Cardy | Executive Producer |
Jamie Hilton | Executive Producer |
Timothy White | Executive Producer |
Jessica Brentnall | Producer |
Sasha Burrows | Producer |
Michelle Russell | Producer |