2011 · drama · romance · supernatural
Sleeping Beauty
Directed by Julia Leigh1h 42m2011
A haunting erotic fairytale about Lucy, a young University student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of beauty and desire.
Our read: Sleeping Beauty (2011) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, inventive drama · romance · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, slow-burn, measured drama / romance, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- slow-burn
- bleak
- cold
- intimate
Watching Sleeping Beauty tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Sleeping Beauty feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want icy, elliptical erotic dread about commodified sleep and watched vulnerability.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if nudity, predation themes, or glacial pacing will leave you cold and uneasy.
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Discussion
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