Just finished watching "Black Swan" is clearly the reason that prompted Marco Müller to open the Venice Film Festival this year with the film Aronofsky preferring the latter to dull "The American".
With all due respect to Clooney, who in recent years, with some slip, he acquired taste in the choice of roles, In this case, compared to the much-vaunted (why?) movie filmed in Abruzzo earth, we are definitely on another level.
as it may seem paradoxical this film is tied hand in glove with the previous "The Wrestler" areas are in fact opposites (a popular sport that is not even recognized as such by most of the arts as opposed to a considered as the noblest ballet), but neighbors are the protagonists, torn and obsessed with their work so as to dispose of any real possibility of a private life as well as engaged in an almost sick to extreme physical regimes which include the subject's body to real torture on behalf of its art.
Nina, played by a superb Natalie Portman (who reminds me of why each performance is one of my favorite actresses) is a dancer in New York on the rise which prepares itself to the role of his life, the Queen of Swans. The girl's mother, dancer failure, reinvigorates the ambitions of strict diets and obsessive limitations to any other activity / contact external environment of the ballet.
The girl, obsessed with technique and perfection, he worked with choreographer Thomas Leroy (Cassel), who appreciates the technical skills but criticized the coldness and tries to uncover her sensual side trying to seduce her and in comparing a insistent a new element of the company: the sultry Lily (Kunis). The erotic charge of the new arrival, together with the difficulties of having to play a dual role by dramatically dichotomous Etoile (the White Swan, pure and virginal, and the Black Swan, sensual and evil) , Nina will undergo a psychological stress The director emphasizes jerky camera movements (the recurrent use of the steady cam former star of The Wrestler).
The film, which soon reveals its melodramatic character, leads to a climax of tension with dark elements (the metamorphosis of Nina) in contrast with the extreme fragility and purity of the girl where the viewer his eyes and with whom he shares the confusion between reality and paranoia and ambivalence between the obsessive attention to your body (is stressed on several occasions the young anorexia nervosa) and hatred for the same.
Also interesting is the theme of doubleness that is expressed both by the (classical) doppelgänger of the main character is obsessed by the stark contrast between Nina and Lily.
D NITED note the role of small but significant, Winona Ryder who plays Beth, the "old" Etoile forced to retire from the scene in favor of a younger girl, which will prove that Nina will become a presence further destabilized the paranoia of the protagonist.
A film that does not give a single moment of levity, completely filled with a dark psychedelic costumes as well (those are the scene of the sisters Mulleavy of Rodarte) and make-up (Marjorie Durand created the look and Judy Chin directed the team) play a primary role.
In Italy should come out February 25th 2011 and despite several pleas to the merits viewing on the big screen advice is always, if you have the opportunity to watch it in its original language. In short, on the big screen and in the original language would be ideal. Now I have developed, in most cases, an allergy irrepressible dubbing, but that's another history (CCIA).
