Sleeping Beauty is a film.
Sleeping Beauty (2011 film) . The film premiered in May at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival as the first Competition entry to be screened . Overall critical reception of the film has been mixed , rising to some approval through June 2016 , after circulation of the film on the festival circuit ; audience reception , on the other hand , has been weak ( less than a third of a sample of tens of thousands approving ) .