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The Limit of Sleeping Beauty

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2017 · 89 min Drama
5.4 / 10 · TMDB

Aki is an unsuccessful 29-year-old actress who eventually became a magician's assistant. While pretending to be hypnotised on the stage, Aki finds the boundary between reality and illusion becoming increasingly vague. For Aki, the only beautiful memory she has was the time spent with her lover Kaito.

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Original Title THE LIMIT OF SLEEPING BEAUTY -リミット・オブ・スリーピング ビューティ-
Year 2017
Country Japan
Genre Drama
Director Ken Ninomiya
Runtime 89 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.4/10 (21 votes)

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The film constructs a delicate world at the intersection of stage magic and psychological drama, using the metaphor of performance to explore a crisis of identity. It relies on a minimalist visual palette where every frame is charged with subtle tension.

What lingers after the credits is a profound sense of melancholy and the haunting question of where the performance ends and the self begins. A quiet, contemplative journey into the cost of escape. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Ken Ninomiya

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