Positive—“The Fountain” is not for everyone. It's an art film. It's not a popcorn flick, or a date movie (although that's what the TV spots want you to think).
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This film is indeed poetry, and a beautiful testament to love and the cycle of life, and the impermanence of death.
Positive—“The Fountain” is not for everyone. It's an art film. It's not a popcorn flick, or a date movie (although that's what the TV spots want you to think).
The production for The Fountain was a mess and, even if you dislike the movie, you'll be riveted by this tale of Hollywood hubris and a director's struggle to ...
Director Darren Aronofsky's 2006 sci-fi mini epic is a movie about facing death. Its character must accept the singular rule of the universe: everyone dies.
On the film's 10th anniversary, Matt Goldberg explains why Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain isn't taking place across three time periods.
This gigantic, unwieldy, passionate, furious, generous, esoteric, impossible film that took our grapple with life and death and writ it large across time, ...
this is what happen when you make a movie for the human spirit , soul , for the the spirituals , some low life without soul or brain will ...