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The Fountain
It's a film that captures that full epic about three main stories from the past, present and future. The film explores the modern-day scientist and his cancer-stricken wife, the conqueror and the queen, and the future space traveler, where each of them experiences a perfect and completely different experience.
7 March 1959, Corona, New York, USA
26 March 1959, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
20 March 1951, Beaverton, Ontario, Canada
27 July 1968, Rotorua, New Zealand
25 May 1976, Manhattan, New York, USA
26 November 1939, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
17 December 1970, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
16 April 1964, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
12 October 1968, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
3 February 1947, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
September 24, 2010
Visual alchemist Darren Aronofsky's most personal work is a double helix of love and loss - death entwined with life as existence's only reliable truths. It offers a transfixing merger of biological imperatives and musings on creativity and tragedy.
July 06, 2010
It's difficult to recall another American film that, in pursuing a passionate and personal vision, goes so maddeningly, uproariously wrong.
February 20, 2014
Perhaps in twenty more years or so, [The Fountain] will be recognized for the utterly gorgeous masterpiece that it is.
July 06, 2010
A metaphysical muddle.
November 29, 2006
Mr. Aronofsky's outlook on life remains too constantly pessimistic for my taste, and too completely joyless as well.
November 16, 2012
The enormous, and sometimes inspired, visual arc of Aronofsky's reach sadly exceeds his narrative's basic grasp.
September 14, 2007
I will concede the film is not a great success. Too many screens of blinding lights. Too many transitions for their own sake. Abrupt changes of tone.
November 27, 2006
Darren Aronofsky clearly didn't set out to make a usual movie...[The Fountain's] a story of overreaching that itself overreaches, but that might have been impossible to avoid.
November 27, 2006
This is one of the worst movies of the year.
November 30, 2006
The Fountain is the story of a gifted artist who dared to reach for the stars and paid for his ambition with a really stupid movie.
January 25, 2007
Lurches on a thin line between hyper-ornate space oddity and extended perfume advert.
