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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Julia Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty

In a year where it’s Hardwicke’s fairy tale adaptation of Red Riding Hood that might be receiving the most attention, I’d place my money on Julia Leigh’s vision of Sleeping Beauty being the edgier, and the more noteworthy fair. The Filmmaker Magazine Top 25 New Face director from Australia worked from a 2008 Black List favorite – which I haven’t read but I’ve heard is quite good on paper.

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#49. Sleeping Beauty

Director/Writer: Julie Leigh
Producer: Jessica Brenthall
Distributor: Rights Available.

The Gist: A haunting erotic fairy tale about Lucy, a student who drifts into prostitution and finds her niche as a woman who sleeps, drugged, in a ‘Sleeping Beauty chamber’ while men do to her what she can‘t remember the next morning.….(more)

Cast: Emily Browning, Michael Dorman and Rachael Blake

List Worthy Reasons…In a year where it’s Hardwicke’s fairy tale adaptation of Red Riding Hood that might be receiving the most attention, I’d place my money on Julia Leigh’s vision of Sleeping Beauty being the edgier, and the more noteworthy fair. The Filmmaker Magazine Top 25 New Face director from Australia worked from a 2008 Black List favorite – which I haven’t read but I’ve heard is quite good on paper.

Release Date/Status?: Cannes or Venice? 

 
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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