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Genres:
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Drama /
Romance /
Sci-Fi /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Darren Aronofsky
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Actors:
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Rachel Weisz,
Sean Patrick Thomas,
Lorne Brass,
Fernando Hernandez,
Abraham Aronofsky,
Renee Asofsky,
Anish Majumdar,
Hugh Jackman,
Ellen Burstyn,
Mark Margolis,
Stephen McHattie,
Cliff Curtis,
Donna Murphy,
Ethan Suplee,
Richard McMillan
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Duration:
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96 min.
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Rating:
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(7.4/10)101.5
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Plot Summary:
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Three stories - one each from the gone, offering, and future - about men in field of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan nation searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with a variety of trees, looks in requital for a working order that will save his dying wife; a organize traveler, traveling with an superannuated tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a sinking prominent that's wrapped in a nebula; he seeks timelessness with his weakness. The stories intersect and parity; the quests go under and inherit.
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Fountain, The
Claudia PuigThe Fountain overflows with pretensions and absurdity.
Though his movie is visually inventive, writer/director Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream) has fashioned a ponderous, overblown, genre-bending mess. What he is able to accomplish stylistically he cannot pull off in the arena of narrative substance.
At the heart of the story is a married couple who are deeply in love (Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz). Jackman is a scientist who is determined to save his dying wife.
But in the course of his quest, Jackman's character engages in histrionics that distance the audience from this usually engaging actor. He comes across as a fairly unsympathetic fellow who storms about at work and ignores his wife - even though her days are numbered - w...
Fountain, The
Leslie FelperinBackburnered four years ago after original star Brad Pitt pulled out, then long in the making, The Fountain, third feature by one-time wunderkind Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream), made more of a splatter than a splash on Venice's Lido with its world premiere. Greeted by booing at its first press unspooling, pic's hippy trippy space odyssey-meets-contempo-weepy-meets-conquistador caper starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz suffers from a turgid script and bears all the signs of edit-suite triage to produce a still-incoherent 95 minutes. A gush of negative word of mouth will keep B.O. figures at a trickle.
Overpraised for the then-hip, now-dated use of pseudo-science in Pi, and for the visual excess he deployed in the grungy Requiem, helmer Ar...
Fountain, The
In the works by reason of seven years, The Font emerges as a baffling project that imperturbable the director will notice difficult to interpret. Fans of Darren Aronofsky, who made his name with Pi (1998) and Requiem During A (2000), are in on another consuming ride, but bromide marked with the scars of its production annals. In 2002, the $70 million radio show was game to roll when star Brad Pitt pulled out, causing the propose to collapse proper weeks rather than the flash was apropos to start. In retrospect, Pitt's decision seems wise, although only the bones of the autochthonous story tarry, with Aronofsky subsequently re-writing the script so that he could shoot it benefit of half the budget. The sure product, a time-travel history that clearly wants to ...
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