Eerie Films III: Black Swan (2010) — Movie Discussion

A journey through the psyche of a young ballerina whose starring role as the duplicitous swan queen turns out to be a part for which she becomes frighteningly perfect.

Visceral and real even while it's one delirious, phantasmagoric freakout. (New York Times)

A ballet melodrama in which it isn't just the body that is threatened with disintegration, but the mind too. (Independent)

Fantastically deranged at all times, Darren Aronofsky's ballet psycho-melodrama is a glittering, crackling, outrageously pickable scab of a film. (Guardian)

Darren Aronofsky's “Black Swan” is a full-bore melodrama, told with passionate intensity, gloriously and darkly absurd. It centers on a performance by Natalie Portman that is nothing short of heroic. (Roger Ebert)

Black Swan is vivid and engrossing, teetering between trash and art, a sleek exploitation borrowing from (among others) Fight Club and The Fly, Mulholland Drive and Persona. (The Atlantic)

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Please watch the film in advance here.

This group is also discussing the movies
- Evdokia (1971) on Friday May 26
- Get Out (2010) on Monday May 29
- Titane (2021) on Monday June 5