The Fountain

Darren Aronofsky stunned audiences with his adventurous debut film "Pi" - which Time Out said was 'smart enough to blow your mind, with or without drugs'.

His new film is a science-fiction tale that astonishes with the boldness of its ideas, and gatecrashes the senses in its execution.

Set well beyond the Star-Gate of Kubrick's film, "The Fountain" is set in a spacecraft whose pilot has led two other existences: one, as a scientist striving to find a cure for his wife's terminal cancer; the other, as a Spanish conquistador in the New World striving to find the Fountain of Youth for Queen Isabella.

From the home-made bespoke world of pi, Darren Aronofsky now steps onto the epic stage with a film that is bound to be one of the most original of this year.