Sleeping Beauty

Based On the book by Yasunari Kawabata

Sleeping Beauty is a 2011 Australian erotic psychological drama film written and directed by Julia Leigh in her directorial debut, and starring Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie, Peter Carroll, and Chris Haywood. The film follows Lucy, a young female university student who takes up a part-time high-paying job with a mysterious group that caters to rich men and women who like the company of nude sleeping young women. Lucy is required to sleep alongside paying customers and be absolutely submissive to their erotic desires, fulfilling their fantasies by voluntarily entering into physical unconsciousness. The film is loosely based on the novels The House of the Sleeping Beauties and Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Nobel laureates Yasunari Kawabata and Gabriel García Márquez, respectively, as well as on a recurring nightmare Leigh experienced in which she dreamt she was being filmed in her sleep.

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Release date:

2011

Director:

Julia Leigh

Cast:

Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie, Michael Dorman, Mirrah Foulkes

Genre:

Drama, Erotic

Country:

Australia

Language:

English

Year page:

2011 in adaptations