A Mini Video Review of ‘Black Swan’ (Kind Of)
I managed to see Darren Aronofsky’s excellent Black Swan recently, and while I’m still plugging away at my forthcoming review of the flick, here’s a brief taste to tide you over. After seeing the film, I was approached by crew from “Beyond the Trailer,” and asked about my thoughts on the film. Like a good cinephile, I obliged, and this is the result. (I’m the red-haired gentlemen in the black coat who shows up around 2:28 — enjoy.)
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The first trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan just hit Apple, and the film manages to both look beautiful and enticingly creepy. Aronofsky’s follow-up to 2008’s The Wrestler, Black Swan details the psychological deterioration of a young New York ballerina, Nina (Natalie Portman), who encounters both a competitor and a mysterious new friend (Mila Kunis) who results in Nina getting more “in touch with her dark side with a recklessness that threatens to destroy her.” (Or so says the press release.) In any case, this doesn’t just look like a ballet movie, but something far more unsettling and haunting. The trailer alone feels like a thematic and stylistic cousin to films like Jacob’s Ladder, The Tenant, and Mulholland Drive. I’m really curious to see how Aronofsky applies the handheld, gritty aesthetic he cultivated in The Wrestler to what appears to be a horror film, and in my book the man hasn’t made a bad film yet. (I’ll be a major defender of The Fountain until the day I die.) Fox Searchlight has the film coming out in the middle of awards season, just like Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours (which I may or may not have seen already…), and I love how this year they seem to be open to letting these great directors make unique and challenging films, while positioning them for mainstream attention. Check out the trailer for Black Swan here and see the film in theaters on December 1st.
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