Sleeping Beauty

• 2011
• Australia
• 1h 41min
• 18

• Directed by: Julia Leigh
• Cast: Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie, Michael Dorman, Mirrah Foulkes, Henry Nixon

Lucy (Browning) is hired by Clara (Blake) for the 'sleeping chamber', in which she is paid to be drugged and to allow a succession of elderly gents to do anything they desire to her short of 'penetration'. Leigh's purportedly feminist debut is crafted with controlled precision, but is often clumsy, pretentious and voyeuristic.

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