Portman’s ‘Swan’ Dive, Spurned Lover Overrated by Oscars: DVDs
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Natalie Portman won an Oscar for her histrionic performance as the feather-sprouting ballerina in “Black Swan.” It wasn’t the first time she’s been overrated.
Looking alternately freeze-dried and pop-eyed, Portman tries very hard to mimic high emotion in “Black Swan.” She can also be so still in her movies that she comes across as an oil painting. In fact, Portman was picked for her part in Milos Forman’s “Goya’s Ghosts” (2007) because she reminded the director of a Goya model.