Black Swan Trailer: Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis are Frenemies with Benefits
Since the success of Mulholland Drive, there has been a sad dearth of beautiful actresses making out in trippy art-house dramas designed to make you question what's really real, man. Into that void comes Black Swan with a dramatic jeté.
The trailer for Darren Aronofsky's new thriller has a lot to offer: Natalie Portman as a psychologically crumbling ballerina, Mila Kunis as her may-not-be-real-but-still-might-be-fingerbanging-me rival, Vincent Cassel as the hot and haughty dance director, and the return of Barbara Hershey. (Sorry, Winona Ryder -- maybe you can earn a bit more screen time in the next clip.) Most heartening of all: The occasionally erratic Portman is really giving it her all, and the perfectly matched Kunis really seems to be getting a lot out of her. (Like her tongue, but it is for art.) Imagine how the already riveting stakes between the two actresses could be upped if they knew that after Black Swan was done, they'd still keep competing with <a href="
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VERDICT: We're so there.
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Winona at 1:26.
Is it just me or is there some serious Polanski imitation going on here? In feeling/theme, yes, but even as specifically as the shot of someone cutting someone else with nail scissors (a la _Repulsion_).
Wow, Winona (1.26). Listed last, and as an "AND" in the credits? Barely half-a-second in the trailer? That's gotta really, really hurt...
Or as Milton wrote "Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light."
NP says there's a taste of Polanski on this. If not Dostoyevsky. But the final shot with the little feather being pulled from her skin... are we not in THE FLY territory here? I mean those abrasions are on her shoulder-blades.
Darren Aronofsky, along with Noah Baumbach, was not hugged enough as a child.
Faux lesbianism in TV/movies is sooo boring these days. That concept is done and dusted. And I'm straight and love lesbians!
I dunno.. I was behind his mother in line for NYFF tickets two years ago when _The Wrestler_ closed the festival. She was _beaming_ about her baby boy's movie being the closing night film at NYFF, so proud. I think he was probably hugged plenty.