The company is opening the season with Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Nina Sayers is a young woman who lives with her overprotective mother, Erica, a former dancer and dances with a New York City ballet company. In 2021, Portman's performance was included in The New Yorker 's list of best film performances of the 21st century. The film received five nominations at the 83rd Academy Awards, including Best Picture, with Portman winning Best Actress and four nominations at the 68th Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama, with Portman winning Best Actress. It was a commercial success, grossing $330 million worldwide against a $13 million budget. Upon its release, the film received critical acclaim with particular praise toward Aronofsky's direction and the performances of Portman and Kunis.
It had a limited release in the United States starting Decemand opened in wide release on December 17. Portman and Kunis trained in ballet for several months before filming began.īlack Swan premiered as the opening film for the 67th Venice International Film Festival on September 1, 2010. He and Portman first discussed the project in 2000, and after a brief attachment to Universal Studios, Black Swan was produced in New York City in 2009 by Fox Searchlight Pictures. The director also considered Black Swan a companion piece to his 2008 film The Wrestler, with both films involving demanding performances for different kinds of art. Aronofsky cites Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Double as another inspiration for the film. Nina is overwhelmed by a feeling of immense pressure when she finds herself competing for the role, causing her to lose her tenuous grip on reality and descend into madness.Īronofsky conceived the premise by connecting his viewings of a production of Swan Lake with an unrealized screenplay about understudies and the notion of being haunted by a double, similar to the folklore surrounding doppelgängers. The production requires a ballerina to play the innocent and fragile White Swan, for which the committed dancer Nina Sayers (Portman) is a perfect fit, as well as the dark and sensual Black Swan, which are qualities better embodied by the new rival Lily (Kunis). The plot revolves around a production of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake ballet by the New York City Ballet company. The film stars Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey, and Winona Ryder. The screenplay was written by Mark Heyman, John McLaughlin, and Andres Heinz, based on an original story by Heinz. Black Swan is a 2010 American psychological horror film directed by Darren Aronofsky.
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