December 1st, 2010
Swan Song
Our most anticipated movie of the year is Black Swan. In part because the media has been referring to it as an “erotic ballet thriller,” and we’d like to find out what that means.
Beautiful and unsettling, Black Swan stars Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis as competing ballerinas who wind up entangling lithe limbs off-stage as well as on. Winning rave reviews at the Venice International Film Festival and TIFF, Black Swan finds Tchaikovsky meeting director Aronofsky with stunning results.
Did we mention Winona Ryder stars as the aging Prima Ballerina replaced by the younger starlets? Reality bites.
In select theatres on December 1, www.foxsearchlight.com/blackswan
