PRAISE FOR "SLEEPING BEAUTY" AT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

Still from Sleeping Beauty

Andrew O’Hehir at Salon is one of the first to review Julia Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty which is getting a tremendous amount of buzz at the Cannes Film Festival. In the Review, he calls the Australian Film “a strikingly impressive debut”. 

The Toronto International Film Festival’s Cameron Bailey who would is on the look-out to being titles over to Toronto this September, noted on Twitter that “Realized I watched SLEEPING BEAUTY through feminist film theory goggles, but others didn't.” – meaning he “got” it, despite mixed reactions. I’m expecting this one to get a Premiere at TIFF, seeing that Producer Jane Campion has a good relationship with the Festival and that TIFF is never shy of avoiding controversial titles.

EMILY BROWNING STARS IN "SLEEPING BEAUTY"

Poster for Sleeping Beauty

"There will be very heavy penalties for breaches of discretion. Am I clear?".

Australian Director Julia Leigh makes her directorial debut with Sleeping Beauty, which is far from an Adaptation of the Fairy Tale of the same title. Jane Campion who brought Bright Star to TIFF 2009 produces the Thriller starring Sucker Punch's Emily Browning. It is a Story about a young Woman who enters a secret Prostitution ring and her specialty is taking pills which make her fall asleep, allowing her Clients to fulfill their most dark, disturbing fantasies on her while she is unconscious.

Sleeping Beauty will be premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month. Paramount Pictures will be handling distribution it appears, although there is no set release date. Hopefully this will get a Premiere at TIFF 2011? Could it be this year's Black Swan?

Watch its eerie Trailer in full below: