Sleeping Beauty Dividing Opinion at Cannes

Posted Tuesday 17 May 2011

Sleeping Beauty, a first feature from Australian novelist-turned-director Julia Leigh, is dividing opinion at Cannes. In the film, actress Emily Browning's character spends key scenes lying in bed, naked and passive, the object of men's erotic fascination.
"Is it a provocative feminist take on male sexuality and culturally ingrained myths, or an exploitative story with an infuriatingly passive heroine?," the NZ Herald asks, in an article titled 'Browning Bares All in Sleeping Beauty at Cannes' - a headline which we can't help feeling doesn't get to the crux of the issue. For us, it's less about the fact that Browning gets her kit off, and the extent of her nudity, than the discussion around the film. Read the full article
here.