Sleeping Beauty Directed by Julia Leigh Screenplay by Julia Leigh 2011, Autralia Title and synopsis of Julia Leigh’s directorial debut suggests it to be an intriguingly dark and twisted version of the most well known and in film most frequently used fairy tale. What‘s left of the original tale is sleeping beauty and a very …
Sleeping Beauty Written and Directed by Julia Leigh Australia, 2011 The premise of Julia Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty suggests depravity: a young and beautiful woman is drugged and “given” to a man for the night. She is paid handsomely and has no remembrance or evidence of what takes place except a groggy hangover caused by the …
Sleeping Beauty Written and Directed by Julia Leigh Australia, 2011 The premise of Julia Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty suggests depravity: a young and beautiful woman is drugged and “given” to a man for the night. She is paid handsomely and has no remembrance or evidence of what takes place except a groggy hangover caused by the …
Sleeping Beauty Written and directed by Julia Leigh Australia, 2011 Much like Melancholia, this is another review I find difficulty in writing, but for completely different reasons. Whereas Melancholia left me feeling a range of things, Sleeping Beauty leaves me feeling…nothing. It’s a cold and nihilistic film, choosing emotional disconnect in an interesting attempt at …
This year’s Atlantic Film Festival started off with a disappointment. All three screenings of last night’s opening gala of comedy troupe Picnicface’s Roller Town were sold out. Completely sold out. If Haligonians love anything it’s supporting their own. But putting behind me the disappointments of the previous day, I attended the first real day …