Thursday, February 12, 2015

February 12 - Black Swan

Today’s movie is a psychological drama with scenes that happen on February 12. Watch it tonight and enjoy.

BLACK SWAN                                    

Nina Sayers is a member of a ballet company that is to perform Swan Lake. The director Tom Leroy forces his longtime star, Beth into retirement and auditions others for the dual role of the white swan and the black swan. He thinks Nina is perfect as the white swan, but doesn’t have the emotional intensity to dance as the black sawn. He tells Nina he is casting Veronica in the part. She asks him to reconsider and he kisses her, but Nina bites him, so he casts her in the role.  Beth is injured in an accident that Tom thinks might have been a suicide attempt. Nina goes out for a party night with Lilly, who she perceives as a rival and hallucinates a lesbian encounter with her. On February 12, 2010 [1:25:17 to 1:42:41] the ballet premieres. After the first act, when Nina returns to her dressing room, she has a fight with Lilly, stabs and apparently kills her after Lilly says she is going to dance the black swan. Nina dances the black swan and learns her fight with Lilly was a hallucination. She dances the white swan and enacts throwing herself off a cliff (actually onto a mattress) where it is discovered she has stabbed herself. 

A very strange film. For much of the movie you wonder if what you see is real or if Nina is just imagining it.

Date given in film at 1:20:58 on a poster

Director - Darren Aronofsky

Producers - Ari Handel, Scott Franklin, Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer and Brian Oliver

Screenplay - Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin

Awards – Natalie Portman won the Best Actress Oscar for her role. The film was also nominated for the Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing Oscars at the 83rd Academy Awards.  

Released -  September 1, 2010

Runtime – 1 hour 48 minutes

Starring –

Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers/The Swan Queen
Mila Kunis as Lily/The Black Swan
Vincent Cassel as Thomas Leroy/The Gentleman
Barbara Hershey as Erica Sayers/The Queen
Winona Ryder as Beth MacIntyre/The Dying Swan
Benjamin Millepied as David Moreau/The Prince
Ksenia Solo as Veronica/Little Swan
Kristina Anapau as Galina/Little Swan

Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015





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