There isn’t a website online today that doesn’t have Natalie Portman’s picture prominently featured. Gawker is littered with Black Swan ads, People is obsessing about her pregnancy, and any major write-up of the latest Your Highness trailer has deemed it a Portman movie. No one else is in it. (Sorry, awards contender James Franco.) Yes, Oscar season is in full swing, meaning 80% of the world will start bitching she’s overrated and ragging on Black Swan sometime in the next week.
That would be stupid of them. Black Swan is phenomenal. It can’t be overexposed, though the publicity machine will certainly try.
Hopping onto that exposure bandwagon is IFC, who premiered the trailer for The Other Woman today. Formerly titled Love and Other Pursuits, it played the Toronto Film Festival tovery little buzz. It was Black Swan that came out flying, which suggests The Other Woman might not be all that good. It certainly has a pretty mawkish trailer, with the exception of Portman. I remember scoffing at her being cast in this — oh please, Portman as a stepmom? –, but it looks as though Darren Aronofsky tortured the little girl out of her. Portman (despite her dewy looks which she can’t help) is finally a believable adult onscreen. The little exchange between her and Scott Cohen at the beginning is the stuff of actual grown-ups. I wish this Portman could go back and re-record her scenes in Closer. They would be so much more intense and startling now, instead of just feeling vaguely awkward.
If only the rest of the film matches up. It looks awfully dreary, cliched, and trite beyond her performance, but perhaps there are hidden depths to it. Thanks to Yahoo! Movies for the embed:
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So it may not be the BEST movie in the world, but it's neat to see Lisa Kudrow in a dramatic role; that's something that can get me excited enough to see this movie.
I loved Black Swan, but to be honest, there was a bit too much of the "you need to let yourself go and open up emotionally"… kind of takes the subtext and drains the water a bit, at least for me… I think if they made a drinking game of how many times it is directly stated, you would be pretty wasted by the end of the flick.
I've been right where the kid's character is portrayed, and trust me, you don't ever warm to a woman who purposefully and selfishly sets out to destroy your family. Neither her character, nor the father, have any honor in their actions or any concern about anyone but themselves. @#3 I agree completely. I enjoyed Black Swan but it is heavily flawed. The same film put out by a more mainstream director, and suddenly I doubt you'd be seeing such praise from Ms. Rappe.
Only in Hollywood would they think people would want to see a movie about a homewrecker. They've actually made a chick flick that doesn't appeal to chicks! Sheesh
Wow, thanks for explaining my own thoughts to me, LD. I seriously didn't know where my praise of Black Swan came from — it couldn't be the performances, the body horror, the special effects, or the story. Nope. It's just because Aronofsky directed it. Whew. Now it is all explained.
Funny, I can't think why I don't like The Wrestler though….
Too bad Natalie Portman has ruined all this career buzz by getting knocked up by some choreographer ballet dancer! Think about it, she's gonna be like 6 months pregnant when she accepts her Oscar. Not exactly an endearing image to have…an unwed hack who got impregnated by some French sissy.
Too bad Natalie Portman has ruined all this career buzz by getting knocked up by some choreographer ballet dancer! Think about it, she's gonna be like 6 months pregnant when she accepts her Oscar. Not exactly an endearing image to have…an unwed hack who got impregnated by some French sissy.
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