Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky’s supernatural thriller starring Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis as rival ballerinas, and peppered with lesbian subtext – will vy for the 67th Venice Film Festival’s Queer Lion collateral prize this September, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The film festival launched its Queer Lion prize four years ago to honor films among the Venice line-up that deal with “homosexual themes or queer interests.” Last year Tom Ford’s film based on the Christopher Isherwood story A Single Man, landed the Lion.
Also up for the Queer Lion are Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer’s Drei, Swimming Pool and 8 Women director Francois Ozon’s Potiche, Antony Cordier’s Happy Few, Mauro Andrizzi; Matteo Botrugno and Daniele Coluccini’s Et in Terra Pax and Daniele Segre’s Lisetta Carmi, un’animo in Cammino.”
A three-member jury will select the winner, to be announced September 10.
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