Sleeping Beauty - Emily Browning

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Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray

Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray Review

I streamed this film instantly on Amazon (US) last night.

It's very well done, although it's certainly uncomfortable viewing at times. It obviously won't be for all tastes.

Emily Browning gives a great - and brave - performance as a young woman who is sleepwalking through life (I'm pretty sure there is a double meaning in the title). She doesn't care about anything and does things - like having sex with random strangers and burning money - just because she can. She takes a job as a sex worker, although no actual sex is allowed. She is put to sleep and clients pay to do things to her while she sleeps. But eventually she starts to become curious about what goes on while she is asleep.

The rights were picked up by IFC Films in the U.S., so I guess there won't be a Blu-ray release in the States. It doesn't seem to be coming out in Australia (its country of origin) either. I guess I will be importing this title from the U.K.