Black Swan 2010

Black Swan 2010 Synopsis:

A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan. 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.

Black Swan 2010 Description:

Genre: Drama | Mystery
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10
IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0947798/
Size: 564.39 MB
Quality: 720p
Resolution: 1280*544
Frame Rate: 23.976 fps
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Run Time: 1hr 48 min
MPR: R

Black Swan 2010 Cast:

Natalie Portman	Vincent Cassel	Mila Kunis	Ksenia Solo
Kristina Anapau	Benjamin Millepied	Barbara Hershey	Winona Ryder

Black Swan 2010 Review:

Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 87% based on reviews from 269 critics, and reports a rating average of 8.2 out of 10. According to the website, the film's critical consensus is, "Bracingly intense, passionate, and wildly melodramatic, Black Swan glides on Darren Aronofsky's bold direction—and a bravura performance from Natalie Portman." At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 79 based on 42 reviews, indicating "Generally favorable reviews".

The film has been criticized for its portrayal of ballet and ballet dancers. Upon the film's release in the United Kingdom, The Guardian interviewed four professional ballet dancers in the UK: Tamara Rojo, Lauren Cuthbertson, Edward Watson, and Elena Glurjidze. Rojo called the film "lazy... featuring every ballet cliche going." Watson felt that the film "makes [ballet] look so naff and laughable. It doesn't show why ballet is so important to us why we would want to try so hard." The Canadian Press also reported that many Canadian ballet dancers felt that the film depicted dancers negatively and exaggerated elements of their lives but gave Portman high marks for her dance technique. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Gillian Murphy a principle dancer with American Ballet Theater praised the visual elements of the film but noted that the film presentation of the ballet world was "extreme."

Black Swan 2010 Box Office Report:

Black Swan had a limited release in select cities in North America on December 3, 2010, in 18 theaters and was a surprise box office success. The film took in a total of $415,822 on its opening day, averaging $23,101 per theater. By the end of its opening weekend it grossed $1,443,809-$80,212 per theater. The per location average was the second highest for the opening weekend of 2010 behind The King's Speech. The film is Fox Searchlight Pictures' highest per-theater average gross ever, and it ranks 21st on the all-time list. On its second weekend the film expanded to 90 theaters, and grossed $3.3 million, ranking it as the sixth film at the box-office. In its third weekend, it expanded again to 959 theaters and grossed $8,383,479. The film went on to gross over $106 million in the United States and over $329 million worldwide.