Rotten
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.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The Fountain
What if you could live forever?
2006 · 1h 36m · PG-13
Adventure, Drama, Romance, Science Fiction
Directed by
Darren Aronofsky
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Darren Aronofsky Director
- Hugh Jackman as Tomás/Tom Creo/Tommy
- Rachel Weisz as Queen Isabella/Izzi Creo
- Ellen Burstyn as Dr. Lillian Guzetti
- Mark Margolis as Father Avila
- Stephen McHattie as Grand Inquisitor Silecio
- Fernando Hernández as Lord of Xibalba
- Cliff Curtis as Captain Ariel
- Sean Patrick Thomas as Antonio
- Donna Murphy Cast
- Ethan Suplee Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
52%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Lurches on a thin line between hyper-ornate space oddity and extended perfume advert.
David Jenkins, Time Out
Rotten
The Fountain is the story of a gifted artist who dared to reach for the stars and paid for his ambition with a really stupid movie.
Dana Stevens, Slate
Rotten
Mr. Aronofsky's outlook on life remains too constantly pessimistic for my taste, and too completely joyless as well.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Fresh
Darren Aronofsky clearly didn't set out to make a usual movie...[The Fountain's] a story of overreaching that itself overreaches, but that might have been impossible to avoid.
Keith Phipps, AV Club
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