The Fountain

4.50
    The Fountain
    2006

    Synopsis

    Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.

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    Cast

    • Hugh JackmanTomás / Tom Creo / Tommy
    • Rachel WeiszIsabel / Izzi Creo
    • Ellen BurstynDr. Lillian Guzetti
    • Mark MargolisFather Avila
    • Stephen McHattieGrand Inquisitor Silecio
    • Fernando HernándezLord of Xibalba
    • Cliff CurtisCaptain Ariel
    • Sean Patrick ThomasAntonio
    • Donna MurphyBetty
    • Ethan SupleeManny

    Recommendations

    • 63

      Rolling Stone

      In telling a tale of love across time, Aronofsky is sometimes guilty of creating arty, pretentious psychobabble. But in visual terms, he's trying to expose his own raw, romantic heart. Folly? Maybe. But a risk worth taking.
    • 63

      ReelViews

      The overall experience fails to satisfy on a basic level. This is one of those films it's easier to be impressed with than it is to like.
    • 63

      Chicago Tribune

      It's possible to admire or respect a movie without enjoying it too much, and that's partly the reaction I had to Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain. It's an incredibly ambitious film of sometimes thrilling visual achievement, but it didn't connect fully to my mind and nerves.
    • 50

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      The movie would be more bearable without the unyielding score by Clint Mansell, which somehow melds the worst of Minimalism, art rock, and New Age music. It's what you'd hear if your massage therapist wanted to induce a stroke.
    • 50

      Los Angeles Times

      Bloated 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.
    • 50

      The New York Times

      The 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.
    • 40

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Jackman does everything required of him, and his range is quite admirable, while Weisz, who has nothing to prove, does looking gorgeous very nicely.
    • 40

      Variety

      Suffered from production fits and starts and reportedly has been cut down from a longer running time to a still tedious and repetitious hour and a half.

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