It’s best to switch off the more sensible side of your mind, along with any idea that you’re going to experience a documentary-style portrait of the world of ballet, before encountering Darren Aronofsky's ‘Black Swan’. It’s a film that really only works if you let yourself be swirled up, like its main character, in a storm of hysteria, paranoia and tears: it’s too impulsive and emotional to be picked apart at the level of logic and too ludicrous to exist in a world other than its own. It’s huge fun, but only if you’re willing to swallow its more bonkers excesses.
Uncle BoonMee Who Can See His Past Lives
And if that isn't the right kind of bonkers for you, then try this Thai noodle. The film joins a dumpy, softly-spoken tamarind farmer (Boonmee) as he takes metaphysical stock of his time on earth while he slowly, gracefully succumbs to kidney disease. As the film rummages through his subconscious, we meet friendly apparitions of his late wife and his son, the latter of whom has been cross-bred with a monkey. We even get a glimpse of a past life when he inhabited the body of a horny catfish.
Other New Stuff for June
La Signora Senza Camelie (1953) Region 2
La Signora Senza Camelie (1953) Blu-Ray
Map Of The Sounds Of Tokyo (2009)
Of Gods And Men (2010) Region 2
Inside Job (2010)
Tamara Drewe (2010)
Restrepo (2010)
Canterbury Tales, The (1972) Region 2
Lemmy (2010)
Last Train Home (2009)
Dead Man (1994) Blu-Ray
Made In Dagenham (2010)
American: The Bill Hicks Story (2010)
Eden Is West (2009)
Two In The Wave (2009)
Morning Glory (2011)
Fighter, The (2010)
Black Swan (2010) Blu-Ray
Another Year (2010)