In this installment of Frame Rate, Jaime and Patrick discuss Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain (2006).
An audacious, cross-genre, highly allegorical work, The Fountain struggled to find a theatrical audience upon release. In the years since, however, it’s grown to be regarded as a seminally important film of the mid-2000s.
The Fountain is a deeply personal story told with extraordinary ambition on a scale at once infinite and infinitesimal. It was a hell of a film to talk about.
