![]() Lucy begins screaming when she sees the dead man in bed next to her. ![]() Clara tries to wake Lucy, who has overdosed as well, and is eventually able to revive her using mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. ![]() The following morning, Clara comes in and checks the man's pulse, showing no surprise when he cannot be awakened. The client is once again the first man, but this time, he also drinks the tea with a much larger dose of the sleeping drug. Lucy decides to surreptitiously film her next encounter. Clara refuses, saying it will put her clients at risk of blackmail. Īt her next assignment with Clara, Lucy asks if she can see what happens during the sessions while she is asleep. The ex-boyfriend, however, not understanding the reference, takes her seriously and, shocked, refuses her, citing a number of Lucy's personal problems as his reasons. At Birdmann's funeral, Lucy abruptly asks an old boyfriend if he will marry her, in an echo of Birdmann's old playful banter. Sobbing, she takes off her shirt and gets in bed with him, but he dies in her arms. She goes to his house and finds him dying in his bed. She receives a call from Birdmann, who has overdosed on painkillers. Īfter a few of these sessions, Lucy has enough money to move into a larger, more expensive apartment, where she lives alone. After Clara reminds the man of the no-penetration rule, he strips and curls up beside Lucy. After Lucy falls asleep, she lies unconscious on the bed and Clara leads in her client. They are permitted to caress and cuddle her, but vaginal penetration is not allowed. Lucy is driven to a country mansion, where Clara offers Lucy a new role wherein she will be voluntarily sedated and sleep naked while male clients lie beside her. She receives a call from Clara's assistant for a different request. Īfter one other session as a serving girl, Lucy gets promoted. At the dinner party, Lucy is the only girl dressed in white the other women wear black lingerie that is much more revealing than Lucy's outfit. Clara inspects Lucy's body and names her "Sara" for the purpose of anonymity. Clara assures her that the men are not allowed to touch the women sexually, and Lucy agrees to try it. In response to a classified ad for yet another short-term job, Lucy meets Clara, who runs a service that combines lingerie modelling and catering performed by young women at a black tie dinner party for mostly male clients. Due to lack of money and Birdmann's addiction, Lucy makes a decision to look for another part-time job. An old joke between the two is that Birdmann frequently asks Lucy to marry him Lucy always says no. While she does not return his sexual interest, Lucy enjoys Birdmann's company, and in his presence is the only time she is shown smiling or laughing. She is caring for Birdmann, who is an alcoholic and is very attracted to her. Her sister's boyfriend is continually on her about her part of the rent. Lucy is paying tuition and rent by doing several jobs. She is occasionally a research subject at a science laboratory. Lucy is a university student who works in an office in the daytime and at a restaurant in the evenings. Overall critical reception of the film has been mixed, rising to some approval through June 2016, after circulation of the film on the festival circuit. It received a limited release in the United States on 2 December 2011. Sleeping Beauty was released in Australia on 23 June 2011. It was the first Australian film In Competition at Cannes since Moulin Rouge! (2001). The film premiered in May at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival as the first Competition entry to be screened. The film is based on influences that include Leigh's own dream experiences, and the novels The House of the Sleeping Beauties and Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Nobel laureates Yasunari Kawabata and Gabriel García Márquez, respectively. 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. She takes up a part-time high-paying job with a mysterious group that caters to rich men who like the company of nude sleeping young women. The film stars Emily Browning as a young university student. Sleeping Beauty is a 2011 Australian erotic drama film written and directed by Julia Leigh in her directorial debut. ![]()
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