Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 101m
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly
Synopsis:
The lives of three New Yorkers - mother, son and girlfriend - are sustained by dreams, on the one hand of appearing on a game show, on the other of starting a clothes shop. Both are blighted by drugs and the three end up doomed junkies.
Review:
The downbeat content of this powerful film is at first belied by the colourful packaging, but don't be fooled; the whole is a sustained assault on the sensibilities of the viewer with motivic shots and effects evoking the mechanising ritual of addiction. It builds to a frenzy of cross-cutting as fake glamour turns to delirium and squalour. Not for the entertainment seeker.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 101m
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly
Synopsis:
The lives of three New Yorkers - mother, son and girlfriend - are sustained by dreams, on the one hand of appearing on a game show, on the other of starting a clothes shop. Both are blighted by drugs and the three end up doomed junkies.
Review:
The downbeat content of this powerful film is at first belied by the colourful packaging, but don't be fooled; the whole is a sustained assault on the sensibilities of the viewer with motivic shots and effects evoking the mechanising ritual of addiction. It builds to a frenzy of cross-cutting as fake glamour turns to delirium and squalour. Not for the entertainment seeker.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 101m
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly
Synopsis:
The lives of three New Yorkers - mother, son and girlfriend - are sustained by dreams, on the one hand of appearing on a game show, on the other of starting a clothes shop. Both are blighted by drugs and the three end up doomed junkies.
Review:
The downbeat content of this powerful film is at first belied by the colourful packaging, but don't be fooled; the whole is a sustained assault on the sensibilities of the viewer with motivic shots and effects evoking the mechanising ritual of addiction. It builds to a frenzy of cross-cutting as fake glamour turns to delirium and squalour. Not for the entertainment seeker.