Writers: Mark Heyman (screenplay), Andres Heinz
(screenplay), and John J. McLaughlin (screenplay) and Andres Heinz
(story).
Stars: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis
and Vincent Cassel
Nina Sayers, a fragile and repressed ballerina, played by Natalie Portman, strives for the lead in Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake," a role that will require her to play both the gentle white and the seductive black swans.
But in the process, she'll have to shed her "sweet girl" persona (the white Swan-princess Odette) and embrace her darker side for the role (the black swan-Odile) to please her demanding and sexually aggressive director. But she loses her mind during her metamorphosis. Her change is so complete, that Nina eventually develops webbed feet, bird-like legs, sprouts feathers and wings & actually become the black swan.Nina, who constantly strives for perfection, lives with her controlling mother Erica, played by Barbara Hershey, who gave up dance to have her daughter.
When the ballet's artistic director decides to replace the aging prima ballerina for the new season production of "Swan Lake," Nina is his first choice. But she has competition: the beautiful and opened dancer Lily, played by Mila Kunis. After securing the role, Nina is asked to "lose herself" to play the black swan, and so she does. In visual hallucinations, she sees a black-clad version of herself across the subway platform and again in the maze of hallways at Lincoln Center. Even the pink stuffed animals that adorn the bedroom she shares with her neurotic mother seem to come alive and mock her.She conjures up an array of fantasies and delusions, including a lesbian love scene with Lily.
GENRE: drama, mystery, thriller.
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