- Studio: Sundance Selects
- Release Date: Dec 2, 2011
- Starring: Emily Browning
- Summary: This coolly shocking retelling of the classic myth poses its heroine as a rarified sex-worker, confronting ideas of feminine sexuality with bravado and precision. (Sundance Selects)
- Director: Julia Leigh
- Genre(s): Drama
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 20
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Mixed: 8 out of 20
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Negative: 2 out of 20
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80Leigh does a stellar job of showing how these events seep into the unaware girl's everyday existence - almost all of the film's sequences are photographed in precisely composed, inherently surreal single shots.
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80This will divide audiences as much as "The Tree Of Life," but it's a brave and beautiful calling card for both filmmaker and star. Drink it up, sit back and think of a very different Australia.
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Dec 9, 201160As repellent as Lucy's story can be, its mystery has a seductive sway, and it does add up to more than the sum of its insistently elliptical parts.
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25Movies like Sleeping Beauty are as sensual as cottage cheese, not to mention passé.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Negative: 3 out of 8