The Fountain

“What if you could live forever?”

A man obsessed with forestalling death pursues an impossible cure while his wife slips away from him. Aronofsky braids three centuries into one: a conquistador seeking the tree of life, a present-day scientist (Hugh Jackman) racing against illness, a traveler drifting through space. What binds them is the same woman and the same hunger: to hold onto someone past the moment when holding on becomes the cruelest thing of all.