“Black Swan” opens today. Get David Denby’s take:
“‘Black Swan’ turns Freud’s uncanny into shtick; the sinister elements are overloaded and overdetermined. After a while, you realize that the film is a case of ersatz formalism disguising chaos. For instance, the ‘All About Eve’ business with dancers preying on one another was retained from a discarded screenplay by Andrés Heinz, who worked on the final version of ‘Black Swan’ with Mark Heyman and John J. McLaughlin. As a device, it’s clunky and redundant.”
Yes, but we hear Mila and Natalie make out. That’s a redundancy we would like to judge on our own, Denby.
