Interview with Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky

When did you first embark on Black Swan? Where did the idea come from?
My sister was a dancer growing up and she was very into ballet. It wasn’t really anything that I understood. But as I got older, I was thinking about worlds to set films in and I thought ballet could be an interesting world to explore. In addition, I was very interested in Dostoevsky’s ‘The Double’, which is a story about a guy who wakes up and his double is there, and the double starts to replace his life. Then I went to see a production of Swan Lake, which I thought was just a bunch of girls in tutus. I didn’t know what it was. But when I saw that there was a Black Swan and a White Swan, played by one dancer, and it was kind of a Eureka moment, it was like ‘oh wow, a double…’ So then it started to come together… [Read More]

Black Swan - release date moved for UK release

Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, starring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel, will be released in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on Friday 21st January, 2011.

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