Showing through January 19 - "Sleeping Beauty" from the Film Society of Minneapolis/St.Paul
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 8:01AM
Where: St. Anthony Main Theater - Screen 3, 115 SE Main Street
When: See The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul website for a full listing of January 13 - 19 show times.
The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul presents SLEEPING BEAUTY, the provocative directorial debut by Australian novelist Julia Leigh (The Hunter, Disquiet). This official selection of Cannes and Toronto film festivals stars Emily Browning (Sucker Punch, A Series of Unfortunate Events) as young Lucy, a college student possessed by a radical passivity who takes on niche sex work to fund her studies. Australian auteur Jane Campion (The Piano, Bright Star) served as a consultant and mentor to Leigh, and subsequently endorsed a “presented by” credit on the film.
SLEEPING BEAUTY —
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, director Julia 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. (IFC Films)
Sleeping Beauty, Director Julia Leigh, 101 min, Australia, 2011, HD
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