Black Swan is a character study exploring the "tortured artist" trope through the descent into madness of ballet dancer Nina Sayers. The film's open-ended finale leaves viewers with multiple ...

Nina must dance the part of the White Swan, a vision of purity, and also that of the Black Swan, her sensuous double. When Nina's own Black Swan, a dark beauty named Lily (Mila Kunis), joins the ...

Black Swan A wicked, sexy and ultimately devastating study of a young dancer's all-consuming ambition. Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV Plus Icon What To Watch Plus Icon Music Plus Icon Docs ...

When Nina begins to dance, you can see the stiffness and frigidity her character emanates, and when Leroy demands that she show her passion as the Black Swan, you can see where Nina fails.

Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) dances for a New York City ballet company that is preparing for a production of “Swan Lake.” Stressed out by the competition to be the Swan Queen and smothered by ...

From its first woozy, tightrope step, “Black Swan” is thrown into an exploration of binaries. Girl and woman, light and dark, doppelgangers, white swan and black swan. And so Nina’s transformation ...

If some of the visual language of “Black Swan” strikes the viewer as a tad too obvious (Lily’s tattooed wings on her back; a stuffed black swan in Nina’s room), the movie nonetheless ...

Black Swan, the latest film from Darren Aronofsky (the director behind Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain and The Wrestler) is not merely about a production of "Swan Lake," but is told, a.