Black Swan was released in the United Kingdom on January 21st, 2011. Originally it was suppose to be released on February 11th. The Independent said, the film was considered one of "the most highly anticipated" films of late 2010. The newspaper then compared it to the 1948 ballet film The Red Shoes in having "a nightmarish quality ... of a dancer consumed by her desire to dance".
The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray disk in Region 1/Region A on March 29, 2011. The Region 2/Region B version was released on May 16, 2011.
Black Swan had a limited release in select cities in North America on December 3, 2010, in 18 theaters. The film took in a total of $415,822 on its opening day, averaging $23,101 per theater. By the end of its opening weekend it grossed $1,443,809—$80,212 per theater. The location average was the second highest for the opening weekend of 2010 behind The King's Speech. The film has Fox Searchlight Pictures highest per-theater average gross ever, and it ranks 21st on the all-time list. On its second weekend the film expanded to 90 theaters, and grossed $3.3 million, ranking it as the sixth film at the box-office. In its third weekend, it expanded again to 959 theaters and grossed $8,383,479. The film went on to gross over $106 million in the United States and over $329 million worldwide.These figures show one that the film was, to say the least, a great success. Attracting a variety of people from all over the world. Many reviews said the film was 'wonderfully creepy.' This showed that the psychological thriller attracted its target audience successfully.
Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a mixed review. He wrote, "[Black Swan] is an instant guilty pleasure, a gorgeously shot, visually complex film whose badness is what's so good about it. You might howl at the sheer audacity of mixing mental illness with the body-fatiguing, mind-numbing rigors of ballet, but its lurid imagery and a hellcat competition between two rival dancers is pretty irresistible."
Honeycutt commended Millepied's "sumptuous" choreography and Libatique's "darting, weaving" camera work. The critic said: ,"Aronofsky ... never succeeds in wedding genre elements to the world of ballet ... White Swan/Black Swan dynamics almost work, but the horror-movie nonsense drags everything down the rabbit hole of preposterousness."
Various critics have commended Millepied for his excellent camera work, describing it s 'darting' and 'weaving.' This builds up the psychological thriller, and creates suspense, tension and horror.
Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a mixed review. He wrote, "[Black Swan] is an instant guilty pleasure, a gorgeously shot, visually complex film whose badness is what's so good about it. You might howl at the sheer audacity of mixing mental illness with the body-fatiguing, mind-numbing rigors of ballet, but its lurid imagery and a hellcat competition between two rival dancers is pretty irresistible."
Honeycutt commended Millepied's "sumptuous" choreography and Libatique's "darting, weaving" camera work. The critic said: ,"Aronofsky ... never succeeds in wedding genre elements to the world of ballet ... White Swan/Black Swan dynamics almost work, but the horror-movie nonsense drags everything down the rabbit hole of preposterousness."
Various critics have commended Millepied for his excellent camera work, describing it s 'darting' and 'weaving.' This builds up the psychological thriller, and creates suspense, tension and horror.
Supernova have looked at the various comments and reviews on Black Swan, and have realised that the camera work has been particularly praised, however the over the top horror movie scenes did not add to the tension and dramatic atmosphere of the thriller. We are going to use the reviews from this film to help us with our thriller. What we have particularly taken notice of, is the effectiveness of darting, weaving camera work. We have realised that this is what the audience is attracted to, as it builds suspense and gives an element of excitement.
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