Actor

Ellen Burstyn

American actor, an Academy Award winner for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, who also worked with Aronofsky on Requiem for a Dream. One essay so far.

Films covered

The Fountain · 2006

Essays

Death as the way life continues in The Fountain

Three men chase the same tree across the centuries. Aronofsky’s answer to the oldest story we tell is that death is how life continues.

Jan 2023