FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Darren Aronofsky - The Fountain 

Assuming The Fountain is ambitious nonsense - then form and subject would fit together wonderfully in this case, because The Fountain is about eternal life. Darren Aronofsky has decided to put his film on three different narrative levels at the same time. He chooses three completely different directions, which, unlike previous experiments of this kind, cannot necessarily be traced back to the same core. Aronofsky's work was ridiculed and described as stupid at film festivals. That's easy, because The Fountain has a very rare quality: it's a work of the utmost seriousness! The reason: The Fountain is more about the possibility of escaping death than about eternal life. The conflict of a man (or the man himself) with death. At the beginning we experience Tomas (Hugh Jackman) during the Spanish conquest campaigns. In the land of the Maya they search for the biblical tree of life at the behest of Queen Isabella (Rachel Weisz). In the 21st century, Tommy (Jackman) is a surgeon who treats a tumor in the brain of his wife Izzi (Weisz). She is currently writing the fairy tale book The Fountain, which in turn contains passages from the 16th century. In the 26th century Tom (Jackman) is a kind of astronaut who acts according to the principles of Zen philosophy. He moves in space with a dying tree and the spirit of Iz (Weisz). A mysterious fog lies before them... Does that sound weird? But the actors take their roles just as seriously as Arronofsky takes his film. It's almost like they're grounding the whole project. The Fountin exaggerates in every respect: The subject, the effects, the ambitions - that's exactly why I like the film! Haven't there always been young filmmakers who tried to put everything they wanted to express about life into a single film? Crazy, sometimes successful, sometimes not. Not a movie you can watch just like that. But that's a good thing!