New Trailer For Julia Leigh's SLEEPING BEAUTY Is Here

Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty premiered at Cannes and has been picked up for US distribution by IFC films, who bring us this first US trailer for the film.  Sleeping Beauty is about a special kind of call girl, played by Emily Browning, who is almost completely subject to her customer's whims. This looks like a nod to erotic films of past decades, and has potential to be truly shocking as well. Here, IFC synopsizes Sleeping Beauty.

SLEEPING BEAUTY, is a fascinating depiction of a young woman's reckless decent into a shocking world of erotic desires. Lucy (Emily Browning) is a young university student possessed by a kind of radical passivity.  She lets a flip of a coin decide the outcome of a random sexual encounter and she displays an uncomplaining patience when facing the repetitions of her various menial jobs that fund her studies. One day she answers an ad in the student newspaper and interviews for a job to be a lingerie waitress.  But she is secretly being initiated into a world of strange new work; one where she will have to give into absolute submission to her clients by being sedated; becoming a Sleeping Beauty.  Eventually this unnerving experience begins to bleed into her daily life and she finally develops the will to break the spell by discovering what happens to her while she sleeps.  With a fearless performance by Browning, Leigh creates a bold cinematic vision; one where Lucy, both in her clandestine sexual adventures and in her mundane daily existence, lives with the same unflinching and brutal honesty.

Sleeping Beauty will be released on Nov. 1st in a special pre-theatrical window, nationwide on demand via IFC in Theaters, before hitting screens on Dec. 2nd. Here is the trailer.