Excellent horror film/psycho thriller, reminiscent of those Jimmy Sangster-written films of the 60s, and works of Roman Polanski. Natalie Portman deserves every award she gets for her impressive work here as the ballerina who goes bonkers (NB are there any films out there about well-adjusted ballerinas?); there’s wonderful support by Barbara Hershey (crazy stage mother), Vincent Cassel (sexually harassing director), Winona Ryder (don’t buy her as a ballerina but we don’t see her dance and she does great crazy) and Mila Kunis (the best-adjusted of the lot). I felt it slumped around the middle; I couldn’t quite put my finger on why, maybe it was the fact Portman was so passive most of the time, just deteriorating and going mad, it dragged a bit. But once her descent gets going it’s tremendously gripping; I was on the edge of my seat a lot of the time. Extremely well directed, powerful atmosphere, very hot lesbian love scene.
No comments:
Post a Comment