Ballet, paranoia and body horror - it’s the brand new international trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s eagerly awaited Black Swan...
A film as much about loneliness, paranoia and obsession as it is about the brutally competitive world of ballet, Darren Aronofsky’s magnificent Black Swan plays like a mixture of Michael Haneke’s 2001 masterpiece The Piano Teacher, the story-within-a-story conceit of Michael Powell’s The Red Shoes, and the queasy body horror of just about anything by David Cronenberg.
It’s to Aronofsky’s credit that, while his film recalls the work of those great directors, Black Swan comes across as a spectacular piece of cinema in its own right. The new international trailer, which you can find lurking quietly below these very words, focuses on protagonist Nina (Natalie Portman, in what we suspect will be her career-defining role) and her relationships with her nutty mother Erica (Barbara Hershey), rival dancer Lily (Mila Kunis) and slimy director Thomas (Vincent Cassel).
Oh, and Winona Ryder’s in there too, putting in a brilliantly unhinged performance as embittered, ousted ballerina Beth.
Black Swan finally gets its UK theatrical release on 21 January - a sumptuous treat for the new year.
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