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Black Swan (2010)
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Director:Darren Aronofsky
Starring:Natalie Portman | Vincent Cassel | Mila Kunis | Winona Ryder | Sebastian Stan | Janet Montgomery | Barbara Hershey | Toby Hemingway
Genres:Drama | Thriller
Languages:English | Spanish | Italian
Synopsis:Nina (Portman) is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her obsessive former ballerina mother Erica (Hershey) who exerts a suffocating control over her. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Ryder) for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: a new dancer, Lily (Kunis), who impresses Leroy as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan. As the two young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friendship, Nina begins to get more in touch with her dark side - a recklessness that threatens to destroy her.


Customer Review
Superb swan 45 out of 100
Brilliant, breathless and brooding, reality slips past dreams again and again. Holds you to the final frame
JOHN F. from Cork , 14 May 2012
0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

Good psychological thriller 40 out of 100
It's a good psychological thriller BUT they spoil it with too many hints at the beginning even though then they make up with fantastic interpretations by Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis and cameo roles by Wynona Ryder and Vincent Cassel. It's not what it looks like by watching the trailer. Photography is amazing. Natalie Portman is the movie itself, she really deserved that Oscar. Altogether a good movie. (PS my girlfriend found some scenes a little bit disturbing.)
Sebastien from Dublin , 19 Mar 2012
0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

Good 30 out of 100
Watchable. was tipped off by storyline so expected it to be be drab but very watchable
Cathal from Cork , 13 Mar 2012
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Very black indeed! 10 out of 100
Catch this one if you want to watch mental breakdown of talented ballet dancer. Good acting, but abuse she suffers from domineering, crazy mother and sadistic teacher is just too much to bear.
Linda from Kerry , 14 Feb 2012
0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

What was all the hype about 15 out of 100
Just finished watching this movie but was tempted to turn it off half way through. Found it a bit dark and depressing. I am not too sure what all the hype was all about. Would not recommend it.
Louise from Offaly , 07 Feb 2012
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Yawn 20 out of 100
What a disappointment, into you're into psychological bable you will like it otherwise move on
Audrey from Dublin , 11 Oct 2011
0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

What was the hype about? 15 out of 100
I was very disappointed with this movie and expected way more. Between all halluzination, dancing and fighting with her mother the story was so thin and drawn out, most of the time I was bored.
Martin from Wicklow , 06 Oct 2011
0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

Not for me 15 out of 100
Was not really what I was expecting - did watch the whole film but was tempted to turn it off half way through.
Aine from Dublin , 27 Sep 2011
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If I Saw it I liked it. But I'm not sure 20 out of 100
There are so many twists turns and things happening in poor Natalie's head that I'm not sure if I saw this film. Things happen and then we discover that she imagined it. Things don't happen but we see them. Maybe it was too late at night but I found it hard work.
Seamus from Monaghan , 05 Sep 2011
0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

Bad 5 out of 100
Bad
Paddy from Cork , 23 Aug 2011
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Use your head 35 out of 100
Good film leaves you thinking shocked and i felt a bit uneasy at the end. worth renting but expect the unexpected. can be draining on the mind.
michelle from Kildare , 16 Aug 2011
0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

Watch this movie 45 out of 100
Excellent movie, well worth watching. Psychological thriller, not just about ballet, so lads can enjoy it too! Keeps you guessing all the way through.
Eimear from Dublin , 28 Jul 2011
1 people out of 1 found this review helpful

Verry good 50 out of 100
Verry good
pj from Kildare , 12 Jul 2011
1 people out of 2 found this review helpful

ANOTHER FLAWED MEISTERWERK FROM ARONOFSKY. 35 out of 100
A frail, obsessive ballerina is given her 'shot at the title'. But can she dance Tchaikovsky's Black Swan as well as she dances his White? Thus begins her journey into the heart of darkness. An occasionally superb study in hysteria, worthy of Hitchcock, but increasingly in danger of straying into M. Night Shyamalan territory. The blurring of reality and fantasy is crucial to the process, but Aronofsky over-uses it to a point that makes everything just too convenient for its own good. This is the man behind the Crystal Maze brilliance of Pi and the ringmasterly tearjerker The Wrestler. But he's also the brains behind the over-ambitious and under-achieving The Fountain. Black Swan is worth seeing, if only for the chills, but ultimately undeserving of the Oscar hype. Natalie Portman, however, is wonderful from beginning to end.
Brian from Kerry , 24 May 2011
2 people out of 2 found this review helpful



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