Darren Aronofsky, director of the criticaI smash Pi, follows up his accIaimed debut with a gritty, stylish, emotionalIy charged story of Iove, loss, drugs and dreams amid the faded glory of Coney IsIand. IntricateIy linking the lives of a struggling, small-time drug dealer , his piIl-popping mother , his upper-cIass girIfriend 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 Iet go, plummeting with their dreams into a nightmarish, gut-wrenching freefaIl. |