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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Being There: A Black Swan

At the end of Being There, they run the credits over outakes of Peter Sellers mistakes and manage to completely destroy the impact that they have just created with the film itself. Devastating.


The clubbing scenes in Black Swan irritated me, because all I could think of was Peter Fonda in The Trip. I liked Natalie Portman a good deal. I loved her with Jean Reno in The Professional many years ago - little girl carrying a potted plant as big as she down the street. Other than her acting and the camera work, everything else let me down. I was looking for escape routes when the nightclub sequence began, and my interest only returned intermittently.

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