Black Swan

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Movie
German title Black Swan
Original title Black Swan
Black Swan logo.png
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2010
length 108 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 16
Rod
Director Darren Aronofsky
script Andres Heinz ,
Mark Heyman
production Scott Franklin ,
Mike Medavoy ,
Arnold Messer ,
Brian Oliver
music Clint Mansell
camera Matthew Libatique
cut Andrew Weisblum
occupation
synchronization

Black Swan is an American psychological thriller from 2010 . Directed by Darren Aronofsky ; Natalie Portman , Vincent Cassel and Mila Kunis can be seen in the leading roles . As in Aronofsky's previous projects, the music was composed by Clint Mansell . The film was shown that same year at the opening of the 67th Venice International Film Festival .

action

A New York ballet company wants to re-stage Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake , with the roles of the white and black swans being embodied by the same dancer. A successor is also being sought for Beth MacIntyre, the ensemble's aging prima ballerina . The ambitious and disciplined ballerina Nina Sayers is fighting to keep the double role . Her dance director Thomas Leroy is still hesitant. He admits that she has already mastered the role of the innocent white swan perfectly, but complains that she still lacks passion and sensuality for the seductive black swan. When Nina visits him in his office to increase her chances of getting the role, Leroy tells her that he has already chosen the dancer Veronica as the swan queen. Nina wants to withdraw, whereupon Leroy is surprised that she doesn't want to convince him. He gives her a lecture about what he thinks Nina is missing. Then he pulls her close and forces her to give her a passionate kiss, which she wards off by biting his lip. Shortly afterwards, she learns that Thomas has now chosen her for the role of the swan queen.

Nina lives alone with her mother Erica, who was also a dancer, but then got involved with the choreographer , got pregnant with Nina and had to give up her job. Erica wants to protect her daughter from this fate, which she perceives as a mistake, and raises her to rigid perfection so that the daughter can one day achieve what the mother could not achieve. Nina is introduced to the ballet patrons as a rising star at a reception , while Beth is bid farewell. She is very disappointed about the end of her career and claims that Nina has a sexual relationship with Leroy. After the reception, Leroy asks Nina to come home and question her about her sex life. He tells her to please herself so that she can play the passionate black swan well. The next day, Nina learns that Beth was in a car accident.

Under the increasing pressure, Nina's dermatillomania worsens ; at night she unconsciously scratches her shoulder bloody and begins to hallucinate . She develops paranoia and believes that Lily, the new dancer in the ballet company, wants to take the role away from her. Lily is surprised at Nina's allegations and wants to speak to her. One evening she stands in front of Nina's door and wants to go out with her. Nina goes to a bar against her mother's wishes, tries Lily's drugs to relax, and begins to dance unrestrainedly and get involved with different men in the course of the evening. Between the stroboscopic flashes of light she suddenly sees her face, made up like a black swan, flashing. Later she experiences erotic encounters with Lily, first in the taxi, then at home in her bedroom, who ecstatically turns into Nina's "dark" alter ego several times . What is real and what is hallucination remains unclear. The next morning Nina overslept, wakes up alone and rushes to the ballet rehearsal. There she discovers that Lily is dancing the black swan in a run-through rehearsal in her absence and that Leroy praises her for it. Confronted by Nina and asked why she simply disappeared in the morning without comment and did not wake Nina in time, Lily asserts that she does not know anything and that she spent the night with one of the men from the bar.

Nina's hallucinations are becoming more common. When she comes home one evening, she hears and sees the pictures of her mother talking. She notices that the wound on her shoulder has worsened and pulls a bloody black feather out of it. Her eyes turn red and her legs turn into those of a swan, causing her to trip and bump her head on the edge of the bed.

The next day, the day of the premiere, Nina's mother reported her sick to the theater and locked her in her room. When Nina wakes up, she forces her mother to let her out of the house. She rushes to the premiere and learns that Leroy has already asked Lily to dance the swan queen. But Nina can convince him in an unusually self-assured tone that she is very well able to play the part herself, and prepares for her performance. During the break, she finds Lily in her cloakroom, who wears the black swan costume and offers to take over the black swan for her. The two argue until Nina flings Lily against the mirror in the cloakroom and pokes a long piece of mirror in her stomach. Lily is bleeding to death on the cloakroom floor. Nina hides the body in the bathroom, then goes back on stage. As if in a trance, she dances the black swan more and more devotedly until her black swan wings slowly begin to grow. The audience is thrilled.

After Nina's departure, Lily knocks on her cloakroom door to congratulate her on her performance. Obviously Lily's death was just one of Nina's hallucinations, too. The cloakroom mirror is broken, but Nina notices that she actually did not stab Lily, but rather the broken glass stabbed herself in the stomach. Severely wounded, she goes on stage for the last act. The white swan and his death succeed her perfectly. The applause is limitless. Whether Nina will survive her injury remains to be seen.

production

The film was originally supposed to be set in France and shot in Bulgaria , but this was discarded for reasons of cost, among other things. The film was then shot in various locations in New York City . Filming began on December 1, 2009 and ended on February 14, 2010. Production of the film lasted from October 19, 2009 to June 27, 2010.

In the US, the film was released on September 5, 2010; Screenings at various film festivals followed . The film was launched in Germany and Austria on January 20, 2011. The director hoped to have a budget of 28 to 30 million US dollars. With an estimated budget of $ 13 million, the film grossed just under $ 107 million in the US alone; of this, the opening weekend accounted for revenue of a good 1.4 million US dollars. At the box office in Germany, almost 2.15 million visitors were counted, making the film extremely successful. On June 10, 2011, the film was released by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment in Germany and Austria on DVD and Blu-ray Disc with an FSK-16 rating. The 16-track soundtrack by Clint Mansell was released on January 14, 2011 by Sony Classical . It is a variation of the original by Tchaikovsky , with Mansell rearranging the order of the pieces. The piano accompaniment in the film played John Epperson . The main musical theme of the ballet - and also of the film - can be heard as a ringtone from Nina's mobile phone and her music box.

The free TV premiere of the film took place on ORF Eins on February 24, 2013 at 8:15 p.m. to get in the mood for the 2013 Oscars . A week later, the strip was also shown on the German private broadcaster ProSieben . At both channels, scenes were cut that are important for understanding the development of the main character in order to be able to broadcast the film before 10 p.m. The Swiss broadcaster SRF Zwei showed the film in an uncut version on February 24, 2013 at 10:10 p.m. SRF is based on the premise that "feature films and series should be shown in their unmutilated original version". If that means that they will only be shown at a later hour and thus to a smaller audience, this will be accepted.

Director Darren Aronofsky understands Black Swan and his previous film The Wrestler as a diptych through the many common elements . Aronofsky originally planned to make a film about a love affair between a wrestler and a ballerina, but abandoned this idea due to the great distance between these two show worlds. As with The Wrestler , the director's trademark can be seen again: a camera shot in which the camera shows the protagonist from behind for a long time while following him on his march. This can be seen in the scene in which Nina gets off the subway and goes to the dance rehearsal.

Natalie Portman interprets the last scene in such a way that Nina does not die, but kills the small child in her to become a grown woman.

Director Aronofsky named the novella Der Doppelganger by Fyodor Dostoyevsky as an essential inspiration for the film , the central theme of which is the gradual loss of one's own identity and the associated world of life.

Ten years passed before the adaptation of the script for a cinema production was completed.

Originally Meryl Streep intended to play Nina's mother Erica, who ultimately by Barbara Hershey was represented. Rachel Weisz , Jennifer Connelly and Parker Posey were traded to play the role of Beth MacIntyre, whose role in the film was played by Winona Ryder , whose scenes were filmed within ten days. Blake Lively and Eva Green applied for the role of Lily. However, this role was given to Kunis without further audition, only after a video chat between Mila Kunis and the director Darren Aronofsky , after Natalie Portman suggested it to Aronofsky because Kunis had dance experience from her childhood. Kunis trained for the film for three months, during which she received five hours of dance lessons seven days a week. The professional dancer Maria Riccetto worked as a double for Mila Kunis . The other dancers featured are from the Pennsylvania Ballet Company. Mark Margolis can be seen in a guest appearance in the scene in which Nina is announced as the new swan queen at the evening gala.

Dance double controversy

Portman lost about ten pounds for her role to look like a ballerina . At the same time, Portman took dance lessons for a year prior to filming, with the first seven months being privately financed, as no sponsors had been found for the film up to that point. She has already danced in her childhood. According to director Aronofsky, Portman shot 111 scenes himself out of 139 dance scenes. In 28 scenes she was replaced by her film double , professional dancer Sarah Lane , with Lane's face being digitally replaced by Portman's facial features in two scenes. Lane's dance performances are uncredited .

Sarah Lane said that among the dance scenes indicated are numerous close-up shots of the face and upper body that were taken by Portman. The full-shot dance scenes, which each show the whole dancer, are almost all of her. She countered the impression that it would be possible to learn to dance like a professional in a year and a half. What bothers them most is that the film company put up this facade for promotional purposes and that people believe this myth. You yourself trained for 22 years to reach this level. Due to her engagement as a soloist at the American Ballet Theater in New York (since 2007), Lane could only take part in the shoot for six weeks.

synchronization

The German synchronization was based on a dialogue book and dialogue direction by Christoph Cierpka on behalf of the Berlin-based Interopa Film GmbH.

role actor Voice actor
Nina Sayers Natalie Portman Manja Doering
Lily Mila Kunis Anja Stadlober
Thomas Leroy Vincent Cassel Mehdi Nebbou
Erica Sayers Barbara Hershey Kerstin Sanders-Dornseif
Beth Macintyre Winona Ryder Ghadah Al-Akel
Galina Kristina Anapau Nicole Hannak
Veronica Ksenia Solo Tanya Kahana
Thomas Suitor Toby Hemingway Dirk Stollberg
Andrew Sebastian Stan Peter Lontzek
David Moreau Benjamin Millepied Frédéric Vonhof

Reviews

The premiere of the film took place on September 2, 2010 at the opening of the 67th Venice Film Festival. After The Fountain (2006) and The Wrestler (2008), Black Swan was the third film that Aronofsky presented as a director in Venice. The film was “almost unanimously acclaimed” by the premiere audience, and the first reactions from German film critics were mostly positive.

Daniel Kothenschulte praised Aronofsky's directorial work in the Frankfurter Rundschau : “Here, a virtuoso of the cinema indulges in grand gestures that many other directors have long pushed into the moth box of the overworked. […] It's like having Die Rote Schuh , the death-yearning Technicolor classic by Powell and Pressburger, crossed with Brian de Palma's horror fairy tale Carrie . ”As“ a choreographer of cinematic means ”, the director also offers the viewer“ really good dance scenes ". The reviewer particularly emphasized Portman's performance, because “how [she] conjures up all facets of suppressed pleasure, alternating between beauty and horror within a few beats, that is fascinating right up to the last moment”. Overall, Kothenschulte is astonished that “you can still feel this dark pull in such a well-heard piece of popular classical music [the Swan Lake]”.

Cristina Nord found critical comments on the dramaturgy of the film in the taz , for which Aronofsky is “not a man of low tones” and therefore staged “every motif drastically and to the bitter end”: “This tendency to the rough, where Black Swan is too, is nice Find unexpected solutions - for example when Aronofsky initially films a sexual fantasy of his heroine in a very realistic way, but then, as Nina's excitement rises, her skin mutates into the pimply skin of a plucked bird. At some point, of course, you don't really know how long you should endure the always complaining heroine. The further Black Swan progresses, the more the main character resembles a hunted chicken. "

For Patrick Wellinski from kino-zeit.de these deficits are more than compensated for by the acting class of the leading actress: “But as with The Wrestler, Black Swan has an advantage that lets you overlook some of the staging deviations - namely the cast. Natalie Portman managed a performance of almost indescribable power. She can be seen in almost every scene in the film. She is the film. "

Björn Becher from film starts came to a similar assessment : “Aronofsky is alien to subtlety. He puts on thick what is taking a little of the tension out of a psychological thriller with a mystery component. It is always clear where the story of Nina, who has to realize that she only gets her dream part if she becomes a black swan, is heading. Nevertheless, Aronofsky manages a highly emotional finale. ”All in all, Black Swan is “ a worthy opening film of the 67th Venice Film Festival. ”The reviewer also reports that with applause from the premiere audience,“ the level went up again significantly than the Natalie Portman's name appeared on the screen "and summarizes accordingly:" Darren Aronofsky's film is very good, Natalie Portman, however, absolutely terrific. "

Michael Althen from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung saw Aronofsky's salvation in the fact that he interspersed the ballet film with horror elements, and praised Natalie Portman, whom one could hardly get enough of.

Rainer Gansera from the Süddeutsche Zeitung praised the actors: "Nina is portrayed by the grandiose Natalie Portman as a fragile, doe-eyed, internally torn being." Success was trimmed and is now becoming the body of suffering of self-sacrifice. Merciless and grandiose he takes us into the body sensation. "

Awards (selection)

The film, the actors and the film crew won over 25 film awards and were nominated for more than 35 other awards. Natalie Portman won every film award where she was nominated for best actress.

In 2010, Mila Kunis won the Marcello Mastroianni Prize at the 67th Venice Film Festival for the role of Lily .

Academy Awards 2011

Golden Globe Awards 2011

British Academy Film Awards 2011

Screen Actors Guild Awards 2011

Independent Spirit Awards 2011

  • Awards:
    • Best movie
    • Best director
    • Best Actress: Natalie Portman
    • Best camera

Web links

literature

  • Dirk Blothner, Ralf Zwiebel (ed.): Cinema between day and dream. Psychoanalytic approaches to "Black Swan". Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-525-46123-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Black Swan . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2010 (PDF; test number: 125 757 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Black Swan . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Internet Movie Database : Background information
  4. ↑ Internet Movie Database : Filming Locations
  5. ↑ a b c Internet Movie Database : Budget and Box Office Results
  6. ↑ a b c Internet Movie Database : Start Dates
  7. ^ "Black Swan": ORF premiere for psychological thriller with Oscar winner Natalie Portman ( Memento from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Black Swan )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.tele.at
  9. ↑ Michel Bodmer: Trimmed “Black Swan” - grabbing scissors for the quota , srf.ch of February 23, 2013, accessed on March 3, 2013.
  10. ↑ Cutting report on Schnittberichte.com , accessed on March 3, 2013.
  11. ↑ Kathrin Lang: Interview. In: moviesection.de. Retrieved December 27, 2010 .
  12. ↑ Darren Aronofsky: Swan Lake as a Hallucinogen Trip , accessed on September 6, 2012.
  13. ^ My (Double) Life as a Black Swan , Sarah Lane, Wall Street Journal, March 30, 2011.
  14. ↑ Wendy Perron: Putting the Black Swan Blackout in Context? (No longer available online.) In: Dance Magazine . March 11, 2011, archived from the original on March 23, 2011 ; accessed on April 6, 2014 .
  15. ↑ Christopher John Farley: Natalie Portman's 'Black Swan' Dance Double Says She Deserves More Credit. In: Wall Street Journal. March 26, 2011.
  16. ^ Portrait of Sarah Lane , American Ballet Theater
  17. ^ Black Swan in the German dubbing index
  18. ^ A b Daniel Kothenschulte : Venice Film Festival: Beauty and the Beast . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . September 2, 2010, accessed September 7, 2010.
  19. ↑ Cristina Nord: Tricks and Fints . In: the daily newspaper . September 2, 2010, accessed September 7, 2010.
  20. ^ Patrick Wellinski: Black Swan. kino-zeit.de, September 2, 2010, accessed on September 7, 2010 .
  21. ↑ Björn Becher: Black Swan> Filmstarts Critique. Film releases , accessed September 7, 2010 .
  22. ↑ Michael Althen : Venice Film Festival: When the swans wear horror . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 2, 2010, accessed March 4, 2015.
  23. ^ Rainer Gansera: Working body, lust body - Darren Arnofsky's Black Swan . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . January 19, 2011.
  24. ↑ Internet Movie Database : Nominations and Awards