Synopsis
A haunting erotic fairytale about Lucy, a young University student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of beauty and desire.
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Cast
- Emily BrowningLucy
- Rachael BlakeClara
- Ewen LeslieBirdmann
- Peter CarrollMan 1
- Chris HaywoodMan 2
- Hugh Keays-ByrneMan 3
- Tammy MacintoshWork Colleague
- Eden FalkThomas
- Mirrah FoulkesSophie
- Robin GoldsworthyFlatmate
- 80
Empire
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. - 80
Time Out
Leigh does a stellar job of showing how these events seep into the unaware girl's everyday existence - almost all of the film's sequences are photographed in precisely composed, inherently surreal single shots. - 75
Slant Magazine
Julia Leigh's take on the fairy tale is a study in detachment and unspoken dissatisfaction, traits that imbue the proceedings with a barely-contained sexual energy lurking beneath a thin veneer of calm. - 70
Salon
I found it gorgeous, opaque and disturbing in roughly equal portions, but it was a riveting experience all the way through. - 70
The New Yorker
To be at once earthy and ethereal is an uncommon gift. I noticed it, in Browning, when she starred in "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events," as the calmly eccentric Violet Baudelaire. Already, as a teen-ager, she seemed older and wiser than the events unfolding around her, and, likewise, in Sleeping Beauty, she impugns the drooling antics of the elderly. - 50
ReelViews
Sleeping Beauty is one of those self-consciously artsy motion picture that promises more than it delivers. - 50
Village Voice
Sharp and precise as its tableaux might be, though, Sleeping Beauty never burrows into the brain, and its tenuous provocations fizzle out quickly. - 40
Boxoffice Magazine
Leigh certainly has a sense of cinematic style and Emily Browning possesses a fragile beauty that hides a remarkably resilient interior. It's a pity, however, that Jane Campion did not exert a more powerful sway on the result.
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