Sleeping Beauty

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Movie
German title Sleeping Beauty
Original title Sleeping Beauty
Country of production Australia
original language English
Publishing year 2011
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Julia Leigh
script Julia Leigh
production Jessica Brentnall
music Ben Frost
camera Geoffrey Simpson
cut Nick Meyers
occupation

Sleeping Beauty is an Australian film drama by Julia Leigh from the year 2011 .

action

The student Lucy keeps her head above water with various part-time jobs. She takes part in laboratory tests, works as a waitress, office assistant and prostitute. Your life is marked by indifference, lack of perspective and emotional dullness. She can only open up a little to her only friend, the reserved Birdmann . Via a newspaper ad, she comes across a mysterious, exclusive club where women in lingerie serve older, decadent gentlemen at dinner parties. Lured by rich rewards and curiosity, she agrees. Clara, the boss of the club, is taken with Lucy and makes her go further.

Stunned by a drug, Lucy leaves her defenseless body to the sexual fantasies of individual club members, who are guaranteed absolute discretion. The only requirement is that sexual intercourse does not occur. Lucy is soon tormented by the question of what will happen to her while she is unconscious. She secretly records one of the sessions with a mini camera, but it remains untouched in this one. A suicidal man let Clara poison him through an overdose of sleeping pills and died lying in bed next to Lucy. When Clara brings Lucy out of a deep swoon, she notices the dead person next to her, screams her horror and grief and thus awakens in an ambiguous sense.

background

The title of the film is the English name of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty by the Brothers Grimm . Similar motifs as in Sleeping Beauty already existed in the novel Memory of My Sad Whores by Gabriel García Márquez , in the book The Sleeping Beauties by Yasunari Kawabata and in its film adaptation The House of Sleeping Beauties by Vadim Glowna . The screenplay by the Australian writer and screenwriter Julia Leigh made it onto the so-called Black List of the then leading universal producer Franklin Leonard in 2008 ; a list of favorite scripts from around 250 executive producers from the film industry that have not yet been filmed . With the help of Jane Campion , the project finally succeeded. Sleeping Beauty premiered on May 11, 2011 at the Cannes Film Festival as an official participant in the competition. In Germany it was seen for the first time on October 5th of the same year at the Hamburg Film Festival .

Reviews

Arguments

The German-speaking critics noticed the “disturbing passivity” of the main character Lucy, her “self-destructive concept of life”. Everything seems to bounce off her, and she turns her cheek: “Hit harder. I can stand it. ”It was no coincidence that Jane Campion helped with the production, because she repeatedly portrayed female figures“ who seek their fulfillment in unreserved submission. ”

Carsten Baumgardt was enthusiastic about film releases: "Julia Leigh is making the most exciting debut of recent times with her 'Sleeping Beauty' and has created an atmospheric masterpiece that is fascinatingly disturbing - a shockingly beautiful film and a real Cannes discovery: gloomy, complex, courageous and irresistible. ”The cinema was captivated by the narrative with“ hints and ominous nuances ”. In the DVD review of the Frankfurter Rundschau , the unification of emptiness and decadence was addressed, “as if Michelangelo Antonioni and Gustav Klimt had come back to create the definitive portrait of our time together.” Equipped with “exquisite compositions” and found “elegantly staged” Der Tagesspiegel the film, but he is content “with the careful brushing out of a setting that does not make a right decision between The Marquise of O. and The Story of O. What is attractive, even if it is dubious. ”Julia Leigh told the story“ with astonishing passivity ”, said Die Welt , the result was“ interesting to look at, but ultimately too good ”.

The Süddeutsche Zeitung considered the work to be "rather speculative, a little voyeuristic and half-baked. " The Cannes report of the Frankfurter Rundschau saw the quotes from Ingeborg Bachmann's The Thirtieth Year make the film a claim that it did not even come close to fulfilling. “These pictures are too sterile, they indulge in the excess of beautiful nudity too carelessly.” Similarly, the Tages-Anzeiger spoke of “sterile humiliation poetry in which one soon only hears the will to art”.

Review mirror

Rather positive

Mixed

Rather negative

  • Frankfurter Rundschau , May 13, 2011, p. 36, Cannes report by Daniel Kothenschulte: The so strange own life
  • Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 13, 2011, p. 15, Cannes report by Susan Vahabzadeh: Evolution and redemption
  • Tages-Anzeiger , May 14, 2011, p. 35, Cannes report by Florian Keller: My son, the gunman

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Sleeping Beauty . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2012 (PDF; test number: 131 027 V).
  2. ^ Black List 2008 on Entertainment Weekly
  3. ↑ a b c Florian Keller: My son, the gunman . In: Tages-Anzeiger , May 14, 2011, p. 35
  4. ↑ a b c Sascha Westphal: What is missing . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , March 16, 2012, p. 38
  5. ↑ a b Daniel Kothenschulte: The so strange own life . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , May 13, 2011, p. 36
  6. ↑ a b Hanns-Georg Rodek: Nightmare child . In: Die Welt , May 13, 2011, p. 28
  7. ↑ Critique of Sleeping Beauty on Filmstarts.de
  8. ↑ Philipp Schulze: Sleeping Beauty . In: Cinema , No. 3, p. 102
  9. ↑ Jan Schulz-Ojala: Believe in yourself! . In: Der Tagesspiegel , May 14, 2011, p. 26
  10. ↑ Susan Vahabzadeh: Evolution and Redemption . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 13, 2011, p. 15