There is something like serene melancholy in Natalie Portman's physiognomy. Whether something studied or innate, it is a perfect virtue or resource to make the character transition from latencies to explosions with wonderful ease. Everything is balance in a perfect glass sculpture until it breaks into a thousand pieces, that's exactly what I mean...
It is clear that such an anomaly of exceptionality does not go unnoticed by directors who choose it to capitalize on casts, ensuring that blessed gift of confusion, of the unpredictable gaze that excites or frightens depending on the brightness of their gaze radiates or is extinguished as after an icy breath of virtuous characterization.
View lyrical aside and surely waiting for her age to suppose that ballast that not even the cinema, with its supposed egalitarian imprint from the creative point of view, is capable of parking, we are left to enjoy an actress who devastates everything once located in the middle of a scene with its unusual centripetal force of a star. Of course, knowing my tendency for the fantastic, you can imagine that this essential selection of Natalie Portman is going to break there...
Top 3 Recommended Natalie Portman Movies
Black Swan
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Nothing is free. Not even a title. This film starts with that point of dark sophistication that evokes the black swan theory of Nicholas taleb, something that could be located between chaos theory and Murphy's law. From there the disturbing philosophical proposals that stem from this swarm of thoughts about chance, will and fatality. And also with that substrate under her feet moves Nina, the charming dancer who plays Natalie Portman.
A thriller that disorients us both for its scenery and for its unsuspected progress between allegorical ideals of beauty, dance and effort towards success…., or towards madness…
Nina is completely absorbed in dance in part as an inheritance from her domineering mother Erica, a retired dancer who enthusiastically supports her daughter's career ambition. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth Macintyre (Winona Ryder) in the season's new production, "Swan Lake", Nina is his first choice.
But Nina has competition: a new dancer, Lily (Kunis), who has also greatly impressed Leroy. "Swan Lake" it requires a dancer who can interpret both the White Swan, with innocence and elegance, and the Black Swan, who represents cunning and sensuality. Nina is perfectly suited to the role of the White Swan, but Lily is the absolute personification of the Black Swan. As the rivalry between the two young dancers evolves into more than just a rocky relationship, Nina begins to connect with her darker side with a recklessness that threatens to destroy her.
Lucy in the sky
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:In my time (until the arrival of Google that demystifies urban legends), the case of astronaut Neil Alden Armstrong was discussed. According to official rumors, the good man had returned somewhat shaken from his walk on the Moon as the first human to do so. It made sense to him because being a lunatic and stepping on the moon suited him like a glove. But no, none of that was true.
However, Lisa Nowak appeared, the astronaut who supposedly was able to lose her footing on our planet when she returned from one of her trips to space. The matter could have remained something anecdotal. But the subject had enough to make a very free style movie with respect to the truth but ultimately fascinating. Even more so with a Natalie Portman who could always pass for the most beautiful and kind alien willing to abduct you.
Lucy in the Sky, because of the Beatles song and its reference to LSD, is not even designed for a return to our world, given over to an obfuscation that will lead her through her life like a soul in pain. Depersonalization or perhaps abduction. Everything can be for a Lisa played by Natalie who takes us upside down in this film.
Annihilation
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Very sophisticated science fiction can be offered without going off into other galaxies or building new worlds. And without a doubt that is the science fiction that has won me over to its cause. It happened on Earth and Natalie Portman was in charge of trying to reveal great secrets. Perhaps it is because I grew up among the myths of the Bermuda triangle or waiting for the arrival of UFOs on the hidden face of Moncayo. The point is that I love these types of movies.
Area X is a mysterious and remote place controlled by a powerful force. It remains heavily guarded to prevent anyone from entering or leaving without exhaustive control. This area is dominated by strange phenomena that are not governed by the laws of Nature and that have caused the disappearance of previous teams of researchers.
To discover what exactly has happened to her husband, Lena, the biologist represented by Portman will lead a new group of scientists from different areas of knowledge on a dangerous secret expedition to the area. The group will consist of a psychologist (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a surveyor (Tessa Thompson), and an anthropologist (Gina Rodriguez). Together they will investigate the region and their mission will be to discover what happened to the previous expeditions.
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