
In NYC's Chinatown, recluse math genius Max (Sean Gullette) believes "everything can be understood in terms of numbers," and he looks for a pattern in the system as he suffers headaches, plays Go with former teacher Sol Robeson (Mark Margolis), and fools around with an advanced computer system he's built in his apartment. Both a Wall Street company and a Hasidic sect take an interest in his work, but he's distracted by blackout attacks, hallucinations, and paranoid delusions.... (Full plot summary below)
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In NYC's Chinatown, recluse math genius Max (Sean Gullette) believes "everything can be understood in terms of numbers," and he looks for a pattern in the system as he suffers headaches, plays Go with former teacher Sol Robeson (Mark Margolis), and fools around with an advanced computer system he's built in his apartment. Both a Wall Street company and a Hasidic sect take an interest in his work, but he's distracted by blackout attacks, hallucinations, and paranoid delusions..
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| San Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserPi will not be for everyone, but for those who are fed up with the mainstream idiocy that gets dumped into theaters each summer, this movie willbe like a great big palate-clearing taste of sorbet. |
| BBC.comMartyn GlanvillePi is a lesson to aspiring film makers everywhere: perfect your skills, be original, be bold. It's a pity young British directors aren't making films as unique and imaginative as this. Startlingly good cinema. |
| NetflixJames RocchiPi is like a Cronenberg film of the mind, where the unsettling images and lusts are driven by a desire for knowledge, not flesh. |
| Movie MezzanineChristopher RunyonPi accomplishes so much more with...its micro-budget than a Hollywood production could. |
| Cincinnati EnquirerMargaret A. McGurkFilm fans who long for intellectual muscle have reason to hail Mr. Aronofsky for plunging into the mysteries of knowledge, power and the nature of God. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenEureka! This movie is the ultimate portrayal of the numbers racket -- a slice of pi that as sci-fi fantasy really does cut it and makes us hunger fort desserts in store as a sequel to this promising debut by Mr. Aronofsky. |
| Sci-Fi Movie PageJames O'EhleyEven if you're the type who are intimidated by maths like me (to this day I insist that my high school maths teacher arrived at class on a broomstick!), then don't fret: adeptness at mathematics isn't a prerequisite for enjoying Pi. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThis is a film that gives off a rich aroma of intellectual pursuit, but cannot digest the full intellectual and mystical meal it has cooked. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe seductive thing about Aronofsky's film is that it is halfway plausible in terms of modern physics and math. |
| Film Comment MagazineGavin SmithA tour-de-force of grainy, high-contrast black-and-white photography and inventive editing and sound design, π at times ventures to the limits of cinematic legibility. |