For Your ReConsideration: Black Swan (2010)

We finish our stay in 2010 with our last ReConsideration, Darren Aronofsky's descent into madness: Black Swan, wherein Natalie Portman slowly goes insane trying to be perfect. What does Aronofsky think of art and artists? We think something rather untenable, but who better to look at obsession than the most obsessive director currently working? Of course, we talk Portman - she won Best Actress. Kunis, Cassel and another in our long list of difficult mothers, Barbara Hershey. The dancing is superb, the effects sublime and subtle and the horrors very, very intimate. And you thought the ballet was boring. Thanks for listening. Drop us a line at [email protected] and be sure to find us on social media @oscarwatchpod Next week, we pay tribute to the late Milos Forman with a look back at Cuckoo's Nest.