SYNOPSIS
A ballet dancer wins the lead in Swan Lake and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan – Princess Odette – but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
CAST & CREW
Darren Aronofsky
Director
Producer(s)
Scott Franklin, Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver
Script
Mark Heyman, Andrés Heinz, John McLaughlin
Director of Photography
Matthew Libatique
Production designer
Thérèse DePrez, David Stein
Music by
Clint Mansell
Sound
Brian Emrich, Dominick Tavella
Edit
Andrew Weisblum
Cast
Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel.
Production company(ies)
Fox Searchlight Pictures Phoenix Pictures Protozoa Pictures
Darren Aronofsky
Growing up, Darren was always artistic: he loved classic movies and, as a teenager, he even spent time doing graffiti art. After high school, Darren went to Harvard University to study film (both live-action and animation). He won several film awards after completing his senior thesis film, Supermarket Sweep, starring Sean Gullette, which went on to becoming a National Student Academy Award finalist. Aronofsky didn't make a feature film until five years later, in 1996, where he began creating the concept for Pi (1998). After Darren's script for Pi (1998) received great reactions from friends, he began production. The film re-teamed Aronofsky with Gullette, who played the lead. This went on to further successes, such as Requiem for a Dream (2000), The Wrestler (2008), Black Swan (2010), and Noah (2014). Most recently he completed the film Mother! (2017).
Filmography
Fortune Cookie (1991, short), Supermarket Sweep (1991, short), Protozoa (1993, short), No Time (1994, short), Pi (1998), Requiem for a Dream (2000), The Fountain (2006), The Wrestler (2008), Black Swan (2010), Noah (2014), Mother! (2017).
