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The film consists of three story lines, one each from the past, present, and future, a modern-day scientist and his cancer-stricken wife, a conquistador and his queen, and a space traveler in the future who hallucinates his lost love.
27 July 1968, Rotorua, New Zealand
7 December 1932, Detroit, Michigan, USA
26 November 1939, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
12 October 1968, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
3 February 1947, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
16 April 1964, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
25 May 1976, Manhattan, New York, USA
February 20, 2014
Perhaps in twenty more years or so, [The Fountain] will be recognized for the utterly gorgeous masterpiece that it is.
November 30, 2006
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.
November 29, 2006
Mr. Aronofsky's outlook on life remains too constantly pessimistic for my taste, and too completely joyless as well.
September 14, 2007
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.
November 27, 2006
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.
July 06, 2010
A metaphysical muddle.
July 06, 2010
It's difficult to recall another American film that, in pursuing a passionate and personal vision, goes so maddeningly, uproariously wrong.
September 24, 2010
Visual alchemist Darren Aronofsky's most personal work is a double helix of love and loss - death entwined with life as existence's only reliable truths. It offers a transfixing merger of biological imperatives and musings on creativity and tragedy.
November 16, 2012
The enormous, and sometimes inspired, visual arc of Aronofsky's reach sadly exceeds his narrative's basic grasp.
January 25, 2007
Lurches on a thin line between hyper-ornate space oddity and extended perfume advert.
November 27, 2006
This is one of the worst movies of the year.
