The Fountain
- Director:
- Darren Aronofsky ('Pi', 'Requiem for a Dream')
- Writer:
- Darren Aronofsky
- Cast:
- Rachel WeiszHugh JackmanEllen BurstynMark MargolisCliff Curtis
Reviews & comments
The New York Times
pressThe problem, though, is that its techniques run too far beyond its ideas, which are blurry and banal, rather than mysterious and resonant. The Fountain is something to see, but it is also much less, finally, than meets the eye...
Premiere Magazine
pressAs it happens, each one of these tales is also a love story, and The Fountain is Aronofsky’s profession of faith concerning love’s place in the idea of eternity. It’s a movie that’s as deeply felt as it is imagined...
New Zealand Herald
pressPrepare to be happily perplexed in this time-warped, mind-bending and tree-hugging ode to love and death...
Los Angeles Times
pressBloated and logy, and art-directed within an inch of its life, the movie shovels heaps of phony portent and all-purpose mystical imagery onto a thin and maudlin plot...
Film Threat
pressLike all of his previous films, it's visually arresting - if any recent film embodies the concept of cinema as poetry, this it it - but unlike "Pi" or "Requiem for a Dream," these aren't characters we're ever invested in...
Empire Magazine
pressAt heart, this is a simple Zen fable about love and death. In execution, it’s a complex and gorgeous mini-epic with sterling performances from its two stars...
BBC
pressFirst, the good news: The Fountain is only 97 minutes long. Now the bad: that's 97 minutes of rampant metaphysical codswallop...
Its a pity that this film has been defined by dates and places when it seems more productive to read it symbolically and metaphorcally, as perspectives on the experience of facing death through terminal illness, and dying. It is clearly Izzys loving perspective to see her desperate but distracted scientist husband as the conquistador in her novel, while...
The New York Times
pressThe problem, though, is that its techniques run too far beyond its ideas, which are blurry and banal, rather than mysterious and resonant. The Fountain is something to see, but it is also much less, finally, than meets the eye...
Premiere Magazine
pressAs it happens, each one of these tales is also a love story, and The Fountain is Aronofsky’s profession of faith concerning love’s place in the idea of eternity. It’s a movie that’s as deeply felt as it is imagined...
New Zealand Herald
pressPrepare to be happily perplexed in this time-warped, mind-bending and tree-hugging ode to love and death...
Los Angeles Times
pressBloated and logy, and art-directed within an inch of its life, the movie shovels heaps of phony portent and all-purpose mystical imagery onto a thin and maudlin plot...
Film Threat
pressLike all of his previous films, it's visually arresting - if any recent film embodies the concept of cinema as poetry, this it it - but unlike "Pi" or "Requiem for a Dream," these aren't characters we're ever invested in...
Empire Magazine
pressAt heart, this is a simple Zen fable about love and death. In execution, it’s a complex and gorgeous mini-epic with sterling performances from its two stars...
BBC
pressFirst, the good news: The Fountain is only 97 minutes long. Now the bad: that's 97 minutes of rampant metaphysical codswallop...
Its a pity that this film has been defined by dates and places when it seems more productive to read it symbolically and metaphorcally, as perspectives on the experience of facing death through terminal illness, and dying. It is clearly Izzys loving perspective to see her desperate but distracted scientist husband as the conquistador in her novel, while...
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