The fountain [videorecording] / directed by Darren Aronofsky ; screenplay by Darren Aronofsky ; produced by Eric Watson, Arnon Milchan, Iain Smith ; a Warner Bros. Pictures and Regency Enterprises presentation ; a Protozoa Pictures/New Regency production.
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FilmPublisher number: 28376 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English, French Original language: English Publication details: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2007]Edition: Widescreen format (1.77:1)Description: 1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0790782715
- 9780790782713
- Fountain (Motion picture : 2006). French & English.
- Director of photography, Matthew Libatique ; edited by Jay Rabinowitz ; music by Clint Mansell ; story by Darren Aronofsky & Ari Handel.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Requiem for a Dream director Darren Aronofsky switches gears from drug-induced urban malaise to abstract science fiction with this time-tripping symbolic tale of a man's thousand-year quest to save the woman he loves. Moving between representational stories and images, this meditation on life and death focuses on the concept of the mythical Tree of Life that is said to bestow immortality to all who drink of its sap. In one of the film's allegorical timelines, a 16th century Spanish conquistador played by Hugh Jackman sets out to find the tree in order to save his queen (Rachel Weisz) from the Inquisition. Another conceptual story finds Jackman centuries later, struggling with mortality as a modern-day scientist desperately searching for the medical breakthrough that will save the life of his cancer-stricken wife, Izzi. The third and most abstract concept finds Jackman as a different incarnation of the same character-idea, this time questing for eternal life within the confines of a floating sphere transporting the aged Tree of Life through the depths of space. Even more avant-garde than his breakthrough film Pi, The Fountain finds Aronofsky almost completely abandoning conventional story structure in favor of something more cinematically abstract. Though the film was originally slapped with an R by the MPAA, Aronofsky and co. re-edited it to conform to a PG-13 rating. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2006.
Special features (66 min.): "Inside 'The fountain' : death and rebirth" documentary (64 min.); theatrical trailer (2 min.).
Director of photography, Matthew Libatique ; edited by Jay Rabinowitz ; music by Clint Mansell ; story by Darren Aronofsky & Ari Handel.
Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn, Mark Margolis, Donna Murphy.
"Through time and space, one man embarks on a bold 1000-year odyssey to defeat humankind's most indomitable foe: Death"--Container.
MPAA rating: PG-13; for some intense sequences of violent action, some sensuality and language.
DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen, enhanced for widescreen TVs; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
"For private home use in the USA and Canada only"--Container.
In English or dubbed French; with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.