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Firstly, I’m super ashamed of my absence and laziness…

I’m now juggling with three jobs: secretary, dog-sitter and journalist. The good thing is I think I’m finally getting where I’d like to be. The bad thing is I’m all over the place and not used to deal with all that yet.

Plus – and this has nothing to do with cinema – I’ve been unwell these past three weeks. I’ve got a virus in my ear and it went up all the way to my internal ear, causing dizziness and unstable steps. In a few words: I’ve been a mess lately!

Anyway, let’s get back to our review.

I’ve seen ‘Black Swan’ twice because it felt I needed more than one viewing to get an opinion. I’ve really enjoyed it, although certain scenes were quite chocking to my poor eyes.

Nina (portrayed by the amazing-as-always Natalie Portman) is dancing in a ballet company. She’s a supporting dancer and feels that, being closer and closer to thirty, she’ll never have a career as a prima ballerina. She’s living with her mother, who’s treating her like a little girl and muffling her.

Good news for her: the leading dancer (played by an unrecognizable Winona Ryder) is leaving the company (you see, she’s forty, she’s old, not attractive anymore. Long story short: this is the end, my friend) and the choreographer, Thomas (a strangely pervert Vincent Cassel) is jumping on the occasion to refresh the ballet company. He wants to rejuvenate the classic ‘Swan Lake’ and he needs to find the perfect dancer who’ll incarnate both white and black swans.

Nina, dealing with the fact that she needs to get that part to shine under the spotlights, also has to deal with a newbie joining the company: Lily. She’s her opposite, being light and able to let go when she dances. Nina sees in her a rival and a threat, which puts a lot of pressure on her tiny shoulders, as if she needed it!

Nina, lucky girl, is given the big role. Unfortunately, she’s mentally fragile and she’ll dive deeper into madness due to Thomas’s pushy requirements. To him, Nina is a perfect white swan but not bold and sexy enough to incarnate the black swan.

The end of the ballet is as dramatic as the end of the film. Being crazy can’t be good, can it?

I thought that Natalie Portman was brilliant. She’s always is (or at least, in all her movies I’ve seen). Her Nina is wonderfully fragile both mentally and physically. She takes us with her into her hallucinations and her truncated vision of life. The other big actress in this film is Mila Kunis, who’s astonishing playing the fresh and light Lily.

This films is clearly disturbing ‘cause Nina is already mentally ill when you first meet her. She’s been hurting herself, scratching her shoulder and her mother is really pushing her in a bad way. She’s oppressive and weird. I thought she was as crazy as her daughter.

I really enjoyed the scenery and you’ll definitely be surprised by some twists in the scenario. The actors are great, the costumes are beautiful and the end is dramatic. If I had to say something bad about this film, it’d be that too many questions remain unanswered.

It was brutal and cruel, but I think that it sticks to what could happen (or truly happens) in a real ballet company. After all, life is like dancing: it’s hard and painful, but satisfying…

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