Ost.Black Swan (Movie 2010)

Soundtrack
Black Swan: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack album : Clint Mansell
Released : November 30, 2010
Recorded : 2010
Genre : Contemporary classical
Length : 52:38
Language : Instrumental
Label: Sony Masterworks
Clint Mansell chronology : Faster (2010), Black Swan (2010)
Black Swan: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack marks the fifth consecutive collaboration between Aronofsky and English composer Clint Mansell. Mansell attempted to score the film based on Tchaikovsky's ballet, but with radical changes to the music. Because of the use of Tchaikovsky's music, the score was deemed ineligible to be entered into the 2010 Academy Awards for Best Original Score.The film also featured various new pieces of music by English production duo The Chemical Brothers, although they are not featured on the official soundtrack.

Track List Ost.B lack Swan
1. "Nina's Dream" 2:48
2. "Mother Me" 1:06
3. "The New Season" 2:39
4. "A Room of Her Own" 1:56
5. "A New Swan Queen" 3:28
6. "Lose Yourself" 2:08
7. "Cruel Mistress" 3:29
8. "Power, Seduction, Cries" 1:42
9. "The Double" 2:20
10. "Opposites Attract" 3:45
11. "Night of Terror" 8:01
12. "Stumbled Beginnings..." 3:51
13. "It's My Time" 1:30
14. "A Swan Is Born" 1:38
15. "Perfection" 5:45
16. "A Swan Song (For Nina)" 6:23


Release
Black Swan had its world premiere as the opening film at the 67th Venice Film Festival on September 1, 2010. It received a standing ovation whose length Variety said made it "one of the strongest Venice openers in recent memory".The festival's artistic director Marco Mueller had chosen Black Swan over The American (starring George Clooney) for opening film, saying, "[It] was just a better fit... Clooney is a wonderful actor, and he will always be welcome in Venice. But it was as simple as that." Black Swan screened in competition and is the third consecutive film directed by Aronofsky to premiere at the festival, following The Fountain and The Wrestler.In addition, Black Swan was one of seven films nominated for the Queer Lion prize, to be awarded to the best film with "homosexual themes or queer interests", though En el futuro (In The Future) by Argentinian director Mauro Andrizzi won the prize.

Black Swan was presented in a sneak screening at the Telluride Film Festival on September 5, 2010. It also had a Gala screening at the 35th Toronto International Film Festival later in the month. In October 2010, Black Swan was screened at the New Orleans Film Festival, the Austin Film Festival, and the BFI London Film Festival. In November 2010, the film was screened at American Film Institute's AFI Fest in Los Angeles and the Denver Film Festival.

The release of Black Swan in the United Kingdom was brought forward from February 11 to January 21, 2011. According to The Independent, the film is one of "the most highly anticipated" of late 2010. The newspaper compared it to the 1948 ballet film The Red Shoes in having "a nightmarish quality ... of a dancer consumed by her desire to dance".

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Details
Title : Black Swan

Genre : Drama

Official Site : www.foxsearchlight.com/blackswan

Distributed : Fox Searchlight Pictures
Release date(s) : December 3, 2010
Running time : 108 minutes
Country : United States
Language : English
Budget : $13 million
Gross revenue : $144,229,562

Synopsis
A New York City ballet company is preparing for the production of Swan Lake, choosing to cast a new lead to replace current star Beth MacIntyre as the Swan Queen. However, the lead must maintain an adequate portrayal of both the White and Black Swans. Nina Sayers, a dancer, is picked to compete for the part alongside several other young dancers, including newcomer Lily. Nina lives with her caring but overbearing mother Erica, a failed dancer turned amateur artist who, while loving and highly supportive of her career, tries to control much of Nina's life.

The ballet director, Thomas Leroy, is reluctant to cast Nina. He claims her rigid technique makes her an ideal casting for the White Swan, but she lacks the passion of the darkly sensual Black Swan. During a confrontation over the role, Thomas sees her capacity for passion and gives her the role.

He presents her as his new star during a benefit gala. On her way out, Nina is confronted by a drunken Beth who has obviously been crying. Beth has harsh words for the new star, and brings Nina to tears. Thomas returns just in time to console the young ballerina.

Nina displays a number of psychotic symptoms, including strong delusions and elaborate visual hallucinations. She begins to feel paranoid that Lily, her understudy, is determined to take the lead away from her. Thomas, meanwhile, becomes increasingly critical of Nina's "frigid" dancing as the Black Swan, and tells her that she should stop being such a perfectionist and simply lose herself in the Black Swan role.

Lily appears at Nina's door and convinces her to share a night out. During the night out, she takes drugs and becomes more interested in Lily than the men at the bar. Upon returning to Nina's apartment with Lily, the two have sex after Nina and her mother have an enraged argument. Nina wakes up alone the next morning, and rushes to make it on time to rehearsal. When she enters the studio, she finds Lily dancing as the Swan Queen in her absence. Furious, Nina confronts Lily, and asks her why she did not wake her up in the morning. Lily states that she spent the night with a man whom she met at the club, and teases Nina for fantasizing about her.

The night before the ballet's opening, Nina is rehearsing late and continues to experience strong visual hallucinations, such as her reflection acting independent of her and of Lily and Thomas having sex together backstage. When she returns home, she sees her mother's paintings speaking and mocking her. She also notices that the rash on her shoulder has worsened, with little black barbs poking through her skin. Nina pulls one of the barbs from her skin, and it appears to be a black feather. Nina's eyes appear to turn into reddish swan eyes and her legs violently contort into the shape of a swan's. As she tries to steady herself, she falls and knocks herself out on her bedpost.

Nina awakes the night of the opening performance, locked in her bedroom with her mother. Nina's mother tells her that she called the company and informed them that Nina wasn't feeling well and will not be able to perform. After violently forcing her mother to let her leave, Nina arrives at the theater and immediately prepares herself as the White Swan.

The first act goes well until Nina is distracted by a hallucination and the glare of the overhead lights; the Prince drops Nina while dancing onstage. Distraught, Nina returns to her dressing room and finds Lily there, dressed in the Black Swan costume. As Lily announces her intention to play the Black Swan, she changes form into Nina herself. Nina and her duplicate wrestle, with Nina shoving her into a full-length mirror, and during the ensuing scuffle, takes a shard of the mirror and stabs her duplicate, killing her. Upon realizing what she has done, she sees that the body is Lily's. After hiding Lily's body, Nina returns to the stage and dances the Black Swan (the third act of Swan Lake), passionately and sensually, growing black feathers all over her body as she dances, her arms becoming black wings as she finally loses herself and transforms into a black swan. At the end of the act, she receives a standing ovation from the audience, appearing normal from their point of view. When she leaves the stage, she finds Thomas and kisses him with seductive power for the first time.

Back in her dressing room, she is interrupted by a knock at her door and opens it to see Lily, who has come to congratulate her. Nina realizes the fight was another hallucination; however, the mirror is still shattered. She notices a wound on her body and realizes that she apparently stabbed herself as the White Swan, not Lily. Back on stage, Nina dances passionately and seamlessly in the fourth and final act as the White Swan. In the last moments of the ballet, when the Swan is supposed to kill herself by jumping off a cliff on the stage, the audience erupts in thunderous applause while the cast discovers Nina lying on the safety mattress backstage. After Thomas enthusiastically congratulates her on her performance, Lily gasps in horror as she, Thomas, and the cast see that Nina is covered in blood. Though Nina lies wounded and perhaps dying, she feels content that everything she went through helped her to achieve a perfect performance. The film draws to a close with Nina staring up at the stage lights while whispering "I felt it. Perfect. I was perfect," as the screen fades to white and the audience chants her name.

Cast:

Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers
Mila Kunis as Lily
Vincent Cassel as Thomas Leroy
Barbara Hershey as Erica Sayers
Winona Ryder as Beth MacIntyre
Benjamin Millepied as David
Ksenia Solo as Veronica
Kristina Anapau as Galina
Janet Montgomery as Madeline
Sebastian Stan as Andrew
Toby Hemingway as Tom
Sergio Torrado as Sergio

Production Credits

Directed : Darren Aronofsky
Produced : Scott Franklin, Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Brian Oliver
Screenplay : Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, John McLaughlin
Story : Andres Heinz

Music :Clint Mansell
Cinematography : Matthew Libatique
Editing : Andrew Weisblum

External links
Official website
Black Swan at the Internet Movie Database
Black Swan at Metacritic
Black Swan at Rotten Tomatoes
Interview with Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky

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Details
Title : Black Swan

Genre : Drama

Official Site : www.foxsearchlight.com/blackswan

Distributed : Fox Searchlight Pictures
Release date(s) : December 3, 2010
Running time : 108 minutes
Country : United States
Language : English
Budget : $13 million
Gross revenue : $144,229,562

Production Credits

Directed : Darren Aronofsky
Produced : Scott Franklin, Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Brian Oliver
Screenplay : Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, John McLaughlin
Story : Andres Heinz

Music :Clint Mansell
Cinematography : Matthew Libatique
Editing : Andrew Weisblum

Cast:

Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers
Mila Kunis as Lily
Vincent Cassel as Thomas Leroy
Barbara Hershey as Erica Sayers
Winona Ryder as Beth MacIntyre
Benjamin Millepied as David
Ksenia Solo as Veronica
Kristina Anapau as Galina
Janet Montgomery as Madeline
Sebastian Stan as Andrew
Toby Hemingway as Tom
Sergio Torrado as Sergio

Review

Konon Darren Aronofsky memang sengaja membuat BLACK SWAN ini sebagai versi lain dari THE WRESTLER yang juga masuk nominasi Oscar tahun 2008 lalu. Meski sekilas tidak ada kesamaan di antara dua film ini namun kalau kita lihat lebih dalam, inti permasalahannya sebenarnya sama. Pencarian kesempurnaan hingga mengorbankan sisi lain dari kehidupan itu sendiri.

Sebagai sebuah film yang berdiri lepas dari THE WRESTLER, BLACK SWAN tetaplah sebuah film yang menarik. Beberapa menyebut film ini sebagai psychological thriller meski sebenarnya ada juga unsur drama dalam film yang satu ini. Trik-trik yang biasa digunakan dalam film sejenis ini memang tetap ada walaupun itu tak membuat film ini lantas jadi masuk kategori B Movie. Aronofsky cukup jeli menempatkan trik-trik tadi pada tempatnya sehingga alur kisah tetaplah menjadi tonggak utama film ini.

Terlepas dari naskah yang sepertinya sudah cukup kokoh dan kepiawaian Aronofsky dalam membuat visualisasi dari kisah menarik ini, peran para aktor dan aktris dalam film ini juga tak bisa dipandang sebelah mata. Konon Natalie Portman sempat menghabiskan waktu berbulan-bulan untuk mempelajari balet dan ternyata itu tak hanya berbuah tarian yang indah namun juga pemahaman tentang pengorbanan dan rasa sakit yang dialami seorang penari untuk mencapai kesempurnaan. Hasilnya, bisa jadi ini adalah akting terbaik Portman sampai saat ini.


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Black Swan

Antara Sisi Gelap Dan Terang

Details

Title : Black Swan

Genre : Drama

Official Site : www.foxsearchlight.com/blackswan

Distributed : Fox Searchlight Pictures
Release date(s) : December 3, 2010
Running time : 108 minutes
Country : United States
Language : English
Budget : $13 million
Gross revenue : $144,229,562

Production Credits

Directed : Darren Aronofsky
Produced : Scott Franklin, Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Brian Oliver
Screenplay : Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, John McLaughlin
Story : Andres Heinz

Music :Clint Mansell
Cinematography : Matthew Libatique
Editing : Andrew Weisblum

Cast:

Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers
Mila Kunis as Lily
Vincent Cassel as Thomas Leroy
Barbara Hershey as Erica Sayers
Winona Ryder as Beth MacIntyre
Benjamin Millepied as David
Ksenia Solo as Veronica
Kristina Anapau as Galina
Janet Montgomery as Madeline
Sebastian Stan as Andrew
Toby Hemingway as Tom
Sergio Torrado as Sergio


Sinopsis
Semua orang punya sisi gelap dan terang walaupun biasanya hanya salah satu dari sisi itu yang dominan. Nina (Natalie Portman punya sisi terang yang lebih dominan namun pada saat dalam keadaan terancam, sisi gelap Nina mulai muncul. Masalahnya, apakah Nina sudah siap berhadapan dengan sisi gelap yang selama ini tidak pernah ia ketahui?

Seperti juga Erica (Barbara Hershey), ibunya, Nina adalah seorang penari balet yang berbakat. Seluruh hidup Nina didedikasikan pada tari balet dan ia hampir tak punya waktu untuk melakukan aktivitas lain. Saat Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel), sutradara pementasan tari balet, memutuskan untuk mencari bakat baru untuk pementasan Swan Lake, Nina yang terpilih.

Sayangnya, di saat yang sama Nina juga menghadapi kompetisi dari seorang penari bernama Lily (Mila Kunis) yang juga punya peluang menjadi karakter utama dalam Swan Lake. Tokoh utama Swan Lake harus mampu memerankan karakter yang lugu dan anggun namun sekaligus sensual. Nina mampu memerankan karakter yang lugu tapi saat harus tampil sensual, Lily sepertinya lebih pas.

Nina tak ingin kesempatan emas ini diambil Lilly dan ia berusaha keras agar ia tetap menjadi pemeran utama dalam pementasan balet ini. Sayangnya di saat yang sama, Nina mulai berhalusinasi. Nina mulai kesulitan membedakan antara halusinasi dan kejadian nyata. Apakah ini memang hanya halusinasi atau sisi gelap Nina mulai bangkit mengambil alih tubuhnya.

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