SLEEPING BEAUTY
aka JANE CAMPION PRESENTS SLEEPING BEAUTY

Year: 2011
USA: IFC Films
UK: Revolver Entertainment
Cast: Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie, Peter Carroll, Chris Haywood, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Bridgette Barrett, Hannah Bella Bowden, Les Chantery, Benita Collings, Michael Dorman, Eden Falk, Anni Finsterer, Mirrah Foulkes
Director: Julia Leigh
Country: Australia
USA: 102 mins
UK: 101 mins
USA Rated: Unrated
UK Certificate: 18 contains strong sexual threat, nudity and very strong language
USA Release Date: 2 December 2011 (Limited Release)
UK Release Date: 14 October 2011

Synopsis

"What happens while she sleeps..."

Death-haunted, quietly reckless, Lucy (Emily Browning) 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.