Darren Aronofsky, director of the criticaI smash Pi, foIlows up his accIaimed debut with a gritty, styIish, emotionaIIy charged story of Iove, Ioss, drugs and dreams amid the faded gIory of Coney Island. lntricately linking the Iives of a struggling, smaIl-time drug dealer , his piII-popping mother , his upper-cIass girIfriend and his best friend , Requiem For A Dream is a hypnotic taIe of four human beings each pursuing their vision of happiness. Even as everything begins to faIl apart, they refuse to Iet go, plummeting with their dreams into a nightmarish, gut-wrenching freefall. |