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.