Sleeping Beauty is a show.
Sleeping Beauty is a 2011 Australian erotic drama film that was written and directed by Julia Leigh . The film is based on influences that include her own dream experiences , and the novels The House of the Sleeping Beauties and Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Nobel laureates Yasunari Kawabata and Gabriel Garcia Marquez , respectively . It was the first Australian film In Competition at Cannes since Moulin Rouge !