Hugely Overrated

Rating: 3/10 (18 December 2011)

Firstly let's dispel the myth that this is sexually explicit. It's explicit only in the sense that badly feigned sex in which nobody gets naked is explicit. Sure there's lots of pretend eroticism and that's the irony - the main character is supposed to let go of her inhibitions and she never can, just like the film. Even if the sex had been more explicit it would still have been a case of more is less. Everyone who thinks this film is good should go and watch "The Red Shoes" a film made over 60 years ago which shows the real eroticism and danger of the obsessional nature of dance. It is much less direct than Black Swan and a hundred times more effective.