The first official trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s next film has been released.
Black Swan stars Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey and Winona Ryder. It’s a psychological thriller based on the script by Mark Heyman and sets the film in the competitive world of ballet. The film will have its premiere at the 67th Venice Film Festival this coming September 2010 with another screening soon after in the same month at the 35th Toronto International Film Festival. The film will open to limited release in early December to qualify it for the award season for 2010.
The trailer definitely has been getting much buzz since it’s release on August 17th, 2010. Some have called it Fight Club for women just from the series of clips and images which made up the teaser trailer. While I won’t say that these individuals are right or wrong, to try and determine what the film is about in just a 2-minute trailer is idiotic. The film definitely plays on the psychological aspect of the story with Natalie Portman’s character the main focus of all the happenings going on around her.
Ms. Portman’s career should get another boost from this role as she continues to move away from her half a decade spent on the Star Wars universe. She has definitely made a concerted effort to pick roles as diverse as possible to avoid being typecase in any one particular role. Already an Oscar nominee for her work in Closer there’s a good chance that she may get another for her work on Black Swan. We will see if the buzz on that rumor will have weight come September 2010 when the film premieres n the Fall Film Festival season.
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Wow! This trailer brought back a lot of memories for me. Admitedly, I’m a sucker for anything that features ballet (as that was pretty much my life for several years) but the trailer also has the feel of the classic, psychologically-themed gialli of the past, the type of movies that made me feel in love with film in the first place.
Last year, I spent almost the entire year giddy with anticipation over the release of An Education. That’s how I’m feeling this year over Black Swan. 🙂
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Yeah, my reaction was 70’s gialli instead of “Fight Club for Chicks” like some seem to be having. Maybe Aronofsky is trying a hand in channeling old-school Argento-Bava.
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Really? That’s how some people see that? I mean, I like Fight Club and everything but it really is such a totally male movie that I don’t think you could ever do a “Fight Club for chicks.”
I am guessing that the guys who are saying that are trying to justify the urge to see a movie about ballet. 🙂
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Well, I think they’re saying “Fight Club for Chicks” because they already assuming that Portman’s character making up the more sensual Kunis character, etc…
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I guess I kind of see why they would refer to it as a “Fight Club for Chicks” but at the same time I can say, not at all. I enjoyed the script and it did leave me with a WTF feeling in the end.
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Script?…..hmmmm….:)
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Black Swan looks creepy, and actually a little scary (I mean just look at that poster), but putting Kunis in a main role is going to be bad since she still hasn’t convinced me she can live down her That 70′s Show days.
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