Sleeping Beauty (2011)
Directed by: Julia Leigh
Student Lucy (Emily Browning) supports herself with a series of regular and ad-hoc jobs. Some (endless photocopying, cleaning tables in a café) use her manual labour – others (serving as a medical experimentee, opportunistic prostitution) use her body and/or looks. Her relationships with other people, flatmates, former lovers, and most notably with a reclusive alcoholic whom she both supports and aids on his path to self-destructive, are highly enigmatic.
One day she answers a newspaper advertisement, and soon she is being interviewed and prepared for what is described as a silver-service job – a description that manages to be both accurate and disingenuous at the same time. Renamed as Sarah, she is required to serve and to sleep (drugged) while wealthy men lie with her. Read more
