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The Fountain (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 187
Fresh: 96
Rotten:91
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Consensus: The Fountain -- a movie about metaphysics, universal patterns, Biblical symbolism, and boundless love spread across one thousand years -- is visually rich but suffers from its own unfocused ambitions.
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Theatrical Release: 2006
Box Office: $10,046,093
Synopsis: It's been a long, strange trip since Darren Aronofsky last invited viewers into his cinematic world--six years in fact--but THE FOUNTAIN is sure to enchant, beguile, and inspire intense debate among his patient fans. During the... [More]
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn, Ethan Suplee
Director: Darren Aronofsky
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Reviews for The Fountain
This film raises an interesting question: How far is a viewer willing to follow a talented filmmaker down a rabbit hole, when it becomes clear that said filmmaker has lost his way?
07/07/08
It's a simple story told with Zen directness, its fingers deep in the age-old questions, its eyes and ears wide open to the sensual potential of cinema.
02/13/08
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.
09/14/07
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Seldom in cinema has eschatology been treated with such intelligence, or inspired such aching awe.
07/06/07
Yes, The Fountain is ridiculously pretentious, pining for your attention like a sixth grade emo kid. And I love it to pieces.
07/03/07
If one is to be left with something in the end, it is the realization that its creator is fully in love with not just the result of his art, but the very happening of it.
07/01/07
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05/16/07
Beautiful and profoundly moving...This is a film I want to see several more times.
05/14/07
...more a middling entry in the message/sci-fi/fantasy genre than the groundbreaking venture its ponderous tone would lead us to believe.
05/12/07
Bonkers, adventurous, silly, ambitious, charming, foolish; it's all those things and it'll be gone in a week. But it's not mainstream Bore-o fare, and for that it should be celebrated.
01/29/07
The key line, spoken by a Mayan priest, is 'Death is the road to awe', and this movie truly puts the 'awe' into awful.
01/28/07
The Fountain's message is that life is short, so we should make the most of it, and that's a message which should take one of two centuries, and one or two hairstyles, at most.
01/28/07
I’ve sat through lots of navel-gazing movies that would have been vastly improved by the addition of some 16th-century conquistador action; Aronofsky’s film is still a bore, Its ideas and images too airy-fairy to have emotional force.
01/28/07
Ambitious? You bet, but also a towering, tumultuous folly. It's the movie equivalent of a prog-rock double album, short on humour, long on pomposity, and as for what it all means - you might well ask.
01/26/07
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