The Wrestler‘s Darren Aronofsky focuses his sights on a completely different stage for his upcoming film Black Swan.

In this thriller from Fox Searchlight, Natalie Portman stars as Nina, a prima ballerina in New York who has been chosen to star in a production of Swan Lake. The pressures of the role plus the arrival of a new dancer (Mila Kunis) lead to the film’s psychological twists and turns.

Swan - also starring Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey and Vincent Cassel - has just been selected to open the Venice Film Festival. It will debut in the US later this year.

You can see another pic of Portman in character after the jump.