
She also uses profanity and briefly smokes. Based on whether what we see is real or not, she may have a sexual fling with Nina after drinking with her, and another possible fling with Thomas, while she also uses some drugs. She's a carefree spirit and something of a wild child who wants Nina to loosen up.
MILA KUNIS plays the new dancer in the ballet company who positions herself as both Nina's friend and rival. She uses some strong profanity, briefly smokes, and lacks confidence despite her skill and desire for perfection, something that holds her back from being brilliant. She lives with her mom but ends up feeling suffocated by her smothering and controlling behavior, and may or may not (based on whether what we see is real or imagined) have a sexual fling with Lily after a night of drinking (and possible drug use).
NATALIE PORTMAN plays a dedicated ballerina who so wants to be perfect in both roles of a new version of Swan Lake that she crosses over the line of occasional insanity and hallucinations. WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R For strong sexual content, disturbing violent images, language and some drug use. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? Those who are fans of anyone in the cast, films by Darren Aronofsky or ballet could be interested - otherwise, it doesn't seem likely. With Nina trying to nail both sides of the dual performance, she begins to change and fit into the role, but at the risk of losing her sanity. He sees more of the latter in a new dancer, Lily (MILA KUNIS), who's a carefree and sensual spirit compared with Nina who lives by both her own and her mother's rigid rules. He knows Nina can effortlessly play the White Swan character, but he's looking for someone who can play both her and the Black Swan character, which are quite different parts. The ballet company is run by artistic director Thomas Leroy (VINCENT CASSEL) who's decided it's time to retire his lead ballerina, Beth Macintyre (WINONA RYDER), and replace her with someone younger to star in their new season's debut of Swan Lake. PLOT: Nina Sayers (NATALIE PORTMAN) is a dedicated ballerina in a ballet company located in New York City where she lives with her mom, Erica (BARBARA HERSHEY), a former dancer and obsessive stage mother. QUICK TAKE: Drama/Thriller: While trying to perfect her dual role in a new production of "Swan Lake," a dedicated ballerina begins to lose touch with reality. Tinged with dark humor and sharpened with keen camerawork, A Film in Which I Play Everyone stars Bang at her best, her most provocative.(2010) (Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel) (R)
Something he couldn’t quite // put his hands on” the time she stood in indifferent moonlight on a pier as a cat lapped at the water. Embedded in these poems are those minor events that inexplicably persist in the memory and become placeholders: the time she lied and had her mouth washed out with soap the time someone said she wasn’t his “original idea of beauty but something.
She’s drawn to stories that mirror her own condition: those of women who struggle to speak in a world that would silence them. She falls in and out of love with men, with women, and struggles to realize her ambitions while suffering crushing losses that give rise to dark thoughts. Mary Jo Bang’s brilliant poems might be the soundtrack to such a movie, where the first-person speaker plays herself and everyone she’s ever met. “Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.” “I’m looking for backing for an unauthorized autobiography that I am writing,” Bowie answered. A Film in Which I Play Everyone takes its title from a response David Bowie gave to a fan who asked if he had upcoming film roles.