Black Swan

Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel. Dir. Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler). Writers: Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, John McLaughlin (Man of the House - ?!)

I really want this to be good. Requiem for a Dream still stands as a masterpiece, and while I believe The Wrestler was rather good (guess what, I haven't seen it) The Fountain was horrible with the odd good bit.

The writers here have one previous credit between three of them, and that for a seriously crappy-looking Tommy Lee Jones comedy that I didn't see, and never will. But this might be a good thing. Fresh talent and all that.

The fantastic Natalie Portman plays a ballerina, with the fantastic Vincent Cassel as her Svengali-type-bloke, who gets into a f***ed-up dangerous relationship with understudy Mila Kunis, who is also fantastic. You'd think anything with those three in it would be eminently watchable, but I thought that about The Fountain with Rachel Weisz and Huge Jackman, and oh my God was I wrong? Yes, I was. Very wrong indeed.

I'd love to be wrong about Black Swan, but from the trailer I fear I am not.

Not that I'd go see it either way or anything.