Sleeping Beauty

SLEEPING BEAUTY (2011) - Nov. 12, 2011
Uh... that one wasn't so good.  About a young woman who finds herself caught up in a very specialized form of prostitution, where she is presented to the client after having been knocked out by sleeping pills.  Though Julia Leigh's fussy, meticulously composed visuals are beautiful and striking in the context of a two minute trailer, they kind of get a bit overbearing in a feature-length film.  In fact, from the stylized visuals to the affected performances to the theatrical artificiality of it all, the whole film screams "LOOK!  THIS IS ART!"  It's almost comically pretentious.  *1/2