Good job.

Rating: Null/10 (19 September 2010)

I managed to get the hot ticket for TIFF, which was of course, Black Swan (if you don't count Bruce Springsteen). Wow. It took me a while to get into this, it takes a while to build and I was worried I was going to be watching a movie about a ballet dancer moaning about her life, but man does it pick up! The music does wonders, and the team have managed to fuse the movie well with music everyone is familiar with. Swan Lake, something everyone is familiar with, is suddenly all very new, and it's dark and disturbing territory.
A wonderful performance from Natalie Portman with an excellent supporting cast (Winona seems to be clawing her way back).
Excellent visuals which reach an epic crescendo in the 2nd and 3rd acts of the eventual opening night of 'Swan Lake'. As the screen faded to black with a roaring crowd and blasting classical music I got shivers down my spine.
I would definitely agree with one of the other posters, at times this movie feels like a horror, I could see other audience members hiding behind magazines during one particularly tense scene.
In the words of Nina, it's 'PERFECT'.