
Three stories - one each from the past, present, and future - about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that's wrapped in a nebula; he seeks eternity with his love. The stories inters... (Full plot summary below)
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Three stories - one each from the past, present, and future - about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that's wrapped in a nebula; he seeks eternity with his love. The stories intersect and parallel; the quests fail and succeed.
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| Empire Magazine AustralasiaLuke GoodsellThe enormous, and sometimes inspired, visual arc of Aronofsky's reach sadly exceeds his narrative's basic grasp. |
| ESplatterSteve BiodrowskiThis film raises an interesting question: How far is a viewer willing to follow a talented filmmaker down a rabbit hole, when it becomes clear that said filmmaker has lost his way? |
| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.So simple, so elaborate, and yet so utterly brilliant... |
| Cinemaphile.orgDavid KeyesIf one is to be left with something in the end, it is the realization that its creator is fully in love with not just the result of his art, but the very happening of it. |
| Premiere MagazineGlenn KennyAs 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. |
| DVD VerdictBill GibronIf one would simply switch on their inherent intellect, they'd see the truth behind the tricks -- that is, that The Fountain is an astonishing, evocative experience |
| Montreal Film JournalKevin N. LaforestAt once incredibly dense and disconcertedly simple, utterly over the top and sincerely down to earth, profoundly saddening and defiantly hopeful. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawAs deeply emotional and damnably frustrating as any work of pure individual vision must be. |
| Denver Rocky Mountain NewsRobert DenersteinI know someone who told me the movie's central love story made her weep, but my tears had more to do with disappointment -- I've been a big Aronofsky fan. |
| Houston ChronicleAmy BiancolliExquisitely beautiful and almost unbearably sad... The Fountain is cinema as poetry; romance as revelation; science fiction as prayer. |