Summer cinema— Black Swan

SUM­MER CIN­E­MA IN THE KASÁR­NA COURT­YARD IS BACK!

Prac­ti­cal information:
—sound will be trans­mit­ted via headphones
—we’re hap­py to lend you blan­kets on site
—in case of rain, the screen­ing will be can­celed; tick­ets will remain valid and a new date will be announced in time
—tick­et capac­i­ty: 200
—tick­et price: 150 CZK

Black Swan
Dar­ren Aronof­sky — USA — 2010 — 104 min­utes — Eng­lish with Czech subtitles

In the psy­cho­log­i­cal thriller Black Swan, set in the intense world of New York City’s bal­let scene, vision­ary direc­tor Dar­ren Aronof­sky takes view­ers on a grip­ping and chill­ing jour­ney into the mind of a young bal­le­ri­na who becomes ter­ri­fy­ing­ly per­fect in her pur­suit of the lead role in Swan Lake. The sto­ry fol­lows Nina (Natal­ie Port­man), a dancer with the New York City Bal­let, whose life — like that of every­one in the pro­fes­sion — is com­plete­ly con­sumed by dance. She lives with her moth­er Eri­ca (Bar­bara Her­shey), a for­mer bal­le­ri­na who nev­er ful­ly achieved her own dreams and now pas­sion­ate­ly sup­ports her daughter’s career. When artis­tic direc­tor Thomas Leroy (Vin­cent Cas­sel) announces a new sea­son pre­mière of Swan Lake and replaces the cur­rent pri­ma bal­le­ri­na Beth Mac­in­tyre (Winona Ryder), Nina is his first choice for the lead. How­ev­er, a new dancer, Lily (Mila Kunis), joins the com­pa­ny and imme­di­ate­ly impress­es Leroy with her sen­su­al­i­ty — becom­ing Nina’s fiercest rival. Swan Lake demands a bal­le­ri­na who can embody both the pure and grace­ful White Swan and the dark, seduc­tive Black Swan. Nina is the per­fect White Swan — but the Black Swan is far from her nat­ur­al per­sona. For Lily, how­ev­er, it’s quite the opposite…

A twist­ed and uneasy friend­ship devel­ops between the two dancers, but as their rival­ry inten­si­fies, Nina begins to unrav­el. Des­per­ate to hold onto her dream role, she risks cross­ing a line from which there may be no return.