Oh dear. One of the aggressive film around the sixty-fourth to the Cannes Film Festival, Julian Leigh, apparently shocking and eye-opening Australian Sleeping Beauty film opened less than a press screening last night cry ... the game is absolute silence from Debussy. You could literally hear a pin drop, when the credits rolled and I do not think that silence was out of a confused about what was being projected to us that the director intended.
He was more ... "Why ... was that track? "
I've heard of movies being booed at Cannes, but never anything like this - radio silence. After a few seconds there was no reaction of timid and apologetic applause Leigh team can working in the film, but no critic has been given this thing a note of appreciation.
Was it surprising that the film is finished, no one cheered or jeered? No doubt it is expected to start around the film and go, you know, somewhere ... but never did, and then the curtains, go home, cya later. Two hours of my life I'll never see again.
It can never be a good thing when critics on both sides of me were laughing at the reaction.
It really makes me wonder if the leaders of Cannes is the cinema screen sent them into account before adding to the section of the competition and it is all the more surprising when it is the first film from this particular monitor . There really is no reason why a film so lifeless as to obtain such a large window but I guess it's crash and burn, flavor arthouse epic fail style film festivals are so famous for - Cannes, especially with a reputation for lacking the ability to balance between the sublime and the ridiculous.
Emily Browning stars as Lucy, a college student (I think that math, but could not say for sure ... but obviously not been paying attention to this detail), which has half a dozen jobs just to pay the rent and survive (office busybody, a waitress, a sort of lab rat medical experimentation), which is an ad for a job while using your body, take your paycheck more than a day that is currently in a month.
It could even think that the work will be the wake of boredom and numbness she felt in life as it travels through the drudgery without adequate indication of life or even break a smile. It ends each day with a bottle of vodka, sleepwalking his way through all this with passive sexual encounters with men in bars.
To work for Clara (freezing cold, Stern Rachel Blake), it will offer a "silver service" to the rich, gentlemen aged which is essentially its pour the wine and arrange cover for lavish dinners for them, while wearing a fine lingerie tight. Salaries are generous - to $ 250 USD per hour - with a realistic chance of promotion if it does it well ... even in one of those strange moments of humanity to Clara, she advises Lucy that could never be a concert of full-time career, just something that pays the bills and student loans today and then move on.
Trying to mirror that Steven Soderbergh has done so wonderfully in their own spare film The Girlfriend Experience with porn star Sasha Grey, let's see how Lucy balances her personal life, that his occupation unusual, and his control of sex, but fast-paced narrative frustrating and novelist Leigh insists on keeping the film moving at a snail's pace - soon you are interested in fighting. It is not entirely out of the running of the film because the director is talented enough to tease and suggest that it intends to accelerate the pace at any time, and put his foot down and you're asking it to happen, but unfortunately only never.
Do you think it can happen so it is a provocative film becomes the second act. Time maid slut, a well-paid gigs can quickly become a way of Lucy - his promotion, is now, "Sleeping Beauty", a girl who takes a substance a drug that keeps him completely asleep during the night, and had no awakened the old acts of physical activity in her while in the nude.
And stripping naked, or at least that's what has most of the rest of the film we see the three guys through the same old routine
- Sit down at the end of the bed lying on Lucy Clara Chat to discuss what they can not harm or penetrate the customer
- A front camera naked men showing all their cards before each has its own fetishistic desire wishing to submit our Sleeping Beauty also explored and shown in graphic detail and persistent (which involves a fight between his hands by Emily Browning throat while licking face)
- And then slowly fade to black.
But it all gets so boring.
All the scenes have the feeling of "uh-oh, what a disturbing action must happen now," but it gets very old after the first. The same routine is played on a loop ... pervy Guy arrives, undresses another penis in your face ... and oh, what do we see this time? The camera lingers too long, it simply is not shocking enough to go back. It is just a matter of repetition bizarre, Leigh devalues both our shock at the nakedness of Browning, and the actions performed on it. And there are too many scenes at once two people sitting and chatting, or scenes repeated. I desperately wanted the film to really start once to the next level, but it really never gets more than 20 mph.
The film is constantly trying to have their cake and eat it too. Yes, it is clear that Lucy needs money (which is expelled from his rented room with her boyfriend before she agrees to promote), but the apartment is the most expensive you can not find their new paid hosting, and although we never see their desire for what it does, it is certainly a curious participant. Then the odd time when burning a $ 100 (I think it was) pure deliberately repulsive I had to do to win and truth never rings.
Sleeping Beauty is an attempt provocative films in the style of a film by Eli Roth (but without the shedding of blood and gore), but he never touched the deep note for Leigh. His translation of stories from a book to celluloid is a difficult question, but it is amazing to watch, a photography Geoffrey Simpson in different places by light and texture and makes it all work.
Unfortunately, the film rests on the shoulders of Emily Browning and struggle with striking the right note and never convincing to deliver their dialogue, or emotional outbursts throughout the film, since it is difficult to carry out this demanding life. The scene of the evening is your chance to show their range, but falls short and painful, so you have to prove an actress who can be completely naked, repeatedly showing her breasts, buttocks and Bush - and it always lifeless enough to believe that sleep while men enjoy the perverts, the character of wear parts, where it falls.
Subplot in which a character named Birdman I could never go out with both, and do not fully understand.
That may have been too harsh in my answer on the podcast last night, but definitely not Sleeping Beauty to give the note was Leigh aspire.
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