Not black and white

Rating: 7/10 (12 March 2011)

To understand this, you have to be somewhat familiar with the plot in the ballet "Swan Lake". There you find a woman with two different characters, although on the surface two different persons. Often, those parts are danced by the same ballerina.
This is what Natalie Portman does here and this may be the performance of her life. There's a struggle inside her, between black and white, and she gets more and more confused about what's reality and what's not. The same goes for the audience.
But anyway this is a movie which has, so to say, seen Polanski's "Repulsion" a couple of times too much. Or maybe a couple of times too little. The usual ballet clichés are here too. Portman saves it, but can't really save it all.