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This Week at SF Film Society | NEW PEOPLE Cinema is the continuation of SLEEPING BEAUTY followed by DOMAIN.
SLEEPING BEAUTY
(directed by Julia Leigh)
Through February 2
Showtime: 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:15pm
Acclaimed Australian novelist Julia Leigh’s debut feature is a kinky and elegantly filmed portrait of a pretty college student named Lucy who takes a very strange job. Answering an ad for comely females, she ends up serving dinners to wealthy seniors while clad only in skimpy undergarments. When her skills are deemed worthy, she “graduates” into a more troublesome position where she is given a potion that puts her in a deep sleep while men are permitted to do what they like with her unconscious body. No penetration is allowed, but what does go on is disturbing and strange. Leigh films in long takes and the elegant settings provoke an erotic and sensually heightened mood. While provocatively riffing on the eponymous fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty also references classic works by Buñuel and Georges Bataille. More info >>
( Directed by Patric Chiha )
February 3 – 9
Showtime: 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:15pm
This moody, contemplative drama explores the unusually intimate relationship between an aunt and her nephew. Nadine (‘Betty Blue”s Béatrice Dalle), a single mathematician in her 40s, is struggling with alcoholism. She’s worldly, educated, wild and mischievous and she dazzles young Pierre with captivating stories from her past on their daily walks through the park. With suspenseful restraint, first-time filmmaker Patric Chiha reveals the story, allowing room for silence, facial expressions and body language to do their work. Dalle is mesmerizing throughout matched by newcomer Isaïe Sultan’s compelling work as Pierre. Selected by John Waters as his favorite film of 2010.
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