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Emily Browning gives a fierce and powerful performance, which should put her in the running for the festival’s best actress prize; she is Lucy, a student who takes part-time jobs to pay her tuition. These include medical experimentation 鈥?an almost unwatchable Air Max Niños Baratas , and crucially penetrative process in which a tube is inserted into her gullet 鈥?and occasional prostitution. From here, Lucy is inducted into a niche sex industry: elderly gentlemen in tuxedos hold dinner parties and pay beautiful young women to wait on them, almost naked. Her success leads to a lucrative “sleeping beauty” gig. She is drugged and these ageing, sagging sensualists can do whatever they wish to her naked body, except penetration. But Lucy becomes obsessed with knowing what is being done to her.
The movie’s emotional seriousness consists in Lucy’s unhappy backstory: it is not merely a need for cash that has led her to this, but a kind of trauma and self-hate. She evidently had a painful and complex relationship with an agoraphobic drug addict called Birdmann (Ewen Leslie); he was and is clearly in love with her and Air Max Mujer Baratas , on her many visits, her affectionate friendship is complicated by unexpressed guilt at not feeling the same way or wanting to sleep with him.
All of this Browning suggests in her sulky pouts, her suppressed tears, her angry blankness: especially when talking to her alcoholic mother on the phone. It all leads to the grotesque situation of lying in a drugged stupor for men who wish to indulge in a necrophile-rape fantasy. The sleeping beauty of the original fable fainted on pricking her finger on a spinning wheel, an image of a moment’s daring combined with one of women’s work and torpid docility. Lucy is certainly doing women’s work: but what is she doing? Will she wake up to what is happening?
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