Monday, December 20, 2010

The Black Feather Needs No Shadow


Black Swan
Directed by Darren Aronofsky
Four Stars

By Rollan Schott

Here is what the movies are for. Here is what can be done in their world alone. What a grand and beautiful folly is Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan”, a film that casts aside expectations and conventions and sets off in wild search of the muse. Freed from restraint, unburdened with pretensions, and stripped of formality, here is a movie that loses itself thrillingly in a sustained act of psychological seduction. It is a brave and fearless film.