Black Swan: Blu Ray Review
Black Swan
Rating:R16
Released by 20th Century Fox and Roadshow
It's the film which won an Oscar and Golden Globes for Natalie
Portman's portrayal of a ballet dancer.
And it's still as confounding as on its initial release earlier
this year.
Set in New York, this latest from The Wrestler director Darren
Aronofsky follows a ballet company which is about to put on a new
version of Swan Lake.
Portman plays Nina Sayers, a control freak of a dancer who's pushed
herself as far as she can go for her role; with an obsessive desire
to be part of the new production, she's gone right to the physical
edge for the role of the Black Swan.
As Sayers starts to work on loosening up and getting in touch with
her darker side, she forms a friendship with fellow dancer Lily
(Mila Kunis). But as the show draws ever closer and she tries to
channel the deeper more disturbed Black Swan, Nina's world starts
to fall apart amid jealousy and paranoia.
Black Swan is astounding, confounding, audacious, confusing and
compelling viewing in equal parts.
It's a dizzying head trip of a film at times lead by Portman's
Sayers; she captures the fragility and the delicateness of the
physicality of the dancing role as well as the mental tone
too.
Still a spellbinding watch Black Swan demands your attention and
that's no bad thing.
Rating: 8/10
