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The Fountain (2006)

The Fountain
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Ellen Burstyn, Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz

An odyssey about one man's eternal struggle to save the woman he loves. His epic journey begins in 16th-century Spain, where conquistador Tomas commences his search for the Fountain of Youth, the legendary entity believed to grant immortality. As modern-day scientist Tommy Creo, he desperately strug... (read more)

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PG-13, 1 hr. 36 min.
Directed by: Darren Aronofsky
Release Date: Nov 22, 2006
DVD Release Date: May 18, 2007

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22 hours ago
Wow. This is one of the deepest movies I've ever seen. Simply phenomenal. The visuals are fantastic, and Jackman and Weisz have very strong performances. Watch this movie.
1 day ago
Darren Aronofsky once again made me blow my mind and my load all in my pants when i saw this movie. epic and utterly beautiful. instantly one of my very favorite films.
1 day ago
One of those movies you don't entirely get after you watch but you pick up something new every time you see it. Beautifully made and really interesting
2 days ago
I loved this one. Not all poems are for everyone, nor will the rhetoric of the poet find a home on the ear of all who hear. Images, intricacies and themes repeat to echo points that we begin, we should end and we must live in between. We may miss lif... (read more)
3 days ago
Definitely not a mainstream film, which I think misleads a lot of people going in. The argument could be made that it's just saying "look at all the breathtaking stuff we came up with!" At the core, I found it to be a story about accepting death as a... (read more)

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817 days ago
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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.
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1109 days ago
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
The movie may have significant truths to impart, although I have my doubts, but it feels too inexperienced, too unworldly, to have earned the right to them.
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1114 days ago
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
Exquisitely beautiful and almost unbearably sad... The Fountain is cinema as poetry; romance as revelation; science fiction as prayer.
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1114 days ago
Kurt Loder, MTV
The picture is visually intoxicating --- the images have a luminous psychedelic beauty --- and the film's themes emerge elegantly out of the story's intricately-looped tri-level structure.
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1114 days ago
Pete Hammond, Maxim
A haunting and remarkable emotional journey that takes us places movies rarely dare to go.
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