Storyline
A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan—Princess Odette—but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
Directors
Cast
Marcia Jean Kurtz, Janet Montgomery, Mila Kunis, Charlotte Aronofsky, Mark Margolis, Stanley B. Herman, Shaun O'Hagan, Abraham Aronofsky, Tim Lacatena, Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Sebastian Stan, Toby Hemingway, Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey, Benjamin Millepied, Ksenia Solo, Kristina Anapau, Sergio Torrado, Tina Sloan, Chris Gartin, Deborah Offner, Adriene Couvillion, Sarah Hay, Leslie Lyles, John Epperson, Patrick Heusinger, Anne Bergstedt Jordanova, Daralina Komar
Trailer
Reviews
100
This is, no doubt about it, a tour de force, a work that fully lives up to its director's ambitions.
88
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.
88
Is Black Swan high-minded? I'm happy to say: No. It is extremely high-grade hokum, which is to say it offers several different and combustible varieties.
83
Lurid and voluptuous pulp fun, with a sensationalistic fairy-tale allure. You can't take it too seriously, but you can't tear your eyes away from it, either.
80
Boxoffice Magazine
With Natalie Portman dominating the action and exhibiting a screen maturity not seen from her before, this all-stops-out Grand Guignol melodrama exhibits more than enough blood, sweat and tears (emphasis on the blood) to score nicely beyond the ballet crowd.
