Julia Leigh
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You Were Never Really Here (2017)
Directed by Lynne Ramsay
influenced by Sleeping Beauty (2011)
Themes
Not for the faint of heart, Ramsay's story of young girls stolen by powerful men nods to other recent powerful works with similar themes, like the 2011 Australian film Sleeping Beauty or the 2013 Israeli thriller Big Bad Wolves, minus their fairy-tale symbolism.
Not for the faint of heart, Ramsay’s story of young girls abducted by powerful men nods to other recent works with similar themes, such as the 2011 Australian film Sleeping Beauty, or the 2013 Israeli thriller Big Bad Wolves (minus their fairy tale symbolism).
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1976)
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
influenced Sleeping Beauty (2011)
Visuals
Having taken inspiration from the aforementioned Kubrick (Eyes Wide Shut), as well as Michael Haneke (Funny Games), Luis Buñuel (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie) and Pier Paolo Pasolini (Salo) – not to mention a distinct similarity to recent Australian film, Ben Hackworth’s Corroboree – the film is delicately produced and designed, with the camera routinely sitting still amidst the icy settings; cold stately manors decorated with an assortment of bonsai plants, fancy painting frames and expensive furniture.
While it shares effective camera composition with Just Jaeckins former and his Emmanuelle, however, it lacks the dark humor of the latter two, in the case of the Buñuel not only in sex per se but also in that Spaniards pervasive sexual and dinner-party irony.
Sleeping Beauty lacks style and charisma, and for that she should take a note from Richard Ayoade’s Submarine .