Natalie Hershlag was born on June 9, 1981 in Jerusalem, Israel, as the only child of a family that moved to the United States when she was 3 years old. At the age of 12, she made her first important role in the film "The Professional" adopting Natalie Portman as her stage name. After that, Natalie played roles in such films as "Star Wars"-Episodes I, II, III, "Anywhere But Here", "Where The Heart Is", and "Closer", among many others, for which she received an Oscar nomination.
Now playing in theaters is "Black Swan", an intense and brilliant psychodrama, where Natalie plays one of her most astonishing performances as Nina Sayers, a young New York ballet dancer that is chosen to play the dual role of the Swan Queen in a new version of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake".
Nina's life has been completely consumed with dance and controlled by her mother and now her biggest challenge has come to play at the same time the White Swan (Odette), with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan (Odile), with guile and sensuality.
Nina is able to play the White Swan perfectly, but the Black Swan character fits better to a new dancer in the company, Lily, who becomes her greatest rival, since she has the darkness she needs to embrace the Black Swan characteristics.
The ballet company's director puts hard pressure on Nina, ruthlessly confronting her to explore her dark side, to find the visceral and the real in the role of Odile.
And so Nina's metamorphosis begins, and the film moves gradually into layers of brilliant, wrenching dysfunction when she gets more and more in touch with her dark side with a recklessness that threatens to destroy her.
This is a complex, compelling, and never ordinary movie, but is also one of 2010 best. I strongly recommend it to those who like to see excellent performances and technically excellent movies.
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