Black Swan may be a British film but its director Darren Aronofsky gives the film an almost melodramatic art-house feel that it is so far from the usual Hollywood style films that it deserves a mention here.
The film covers the darker world of ballet, the world of espionage, envy, fear of failure and psychological torture of being pushed into ever increasing stressful situations.
The characters in Black Swan are like they came straight from a Brothers Grimm nursery tale with stereotypically witch like evil mother, the foreboding boss and the insane diva (excellently played by Winona Ryder).
Natalie Portman really steals the show, and rightfully so as it was hers to steal. The film ends in a climatic sequence of mind blowing events.
This film is certainly more a psychological horror than a ballet version of West Side Story.
