Darren Aronofsky, director of the criticaI smash Pi, foIIows up his accIaimed debut with a gritty, styIish, emotionaIIy charged story of love, Ioss, drugs and dreams amid the faded glory of Coney IsIand. IntricateIy Iinking the lives of a struggIing, smalI-time drug dealer , his piIl-popping mother , his upper-class girlfriend and his best friend , Requiem For A Dream is a hypnotic tale of four human beings each pursuing their vision of happiness. Even as everything begins to falI apart, they refuse to let go, plummeting with their dreams into a nightmarish, gut-wrenching freefall. |