Aronofsky, who has parlayed this movie's Sundance success into two Hollywood deals, is that rare indie filmmaker who doesn't want to make hip romantic sitcoms. He's a genuine experimenter with a spooky visual style.
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Pi
Overview
A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.
Director and cast
- Darren Aronofsky Director
- Sean Gullette as Maximillian Cohen
- Mark Margolis as Sol Robeson
- Ben Shenkman as Lenny Meyer
- Pamela Hart as Marcy Dawson
- Stephen Pearlman as Rabbi Cohen
- Samia Shoaib as Devi
- Ajay Naidu as Farroukh
- Kristyn Mae-Anne Lao as Jenna
- Espher Lao Nieves as Jenna's Mom
- Joanne Gordon as Mrs. Ovadia
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
We share Max's feelings of imminent psychological disintegration as the film probes our own insecurity in the face of the eternal. Maths meets millennial doom in one of the decade's true originals.
It's remarkable to what extent Aronofsky has rendered the cerebral kinetically intense. The film's imaginative, diverse images create a mind's-eye urban claustrophobia.
Audacious and bursting with ideas.
The movie's low-budget look neatly matches the claustrophobia of Max's life, but the filmmakers have also devised some special shooting methods for certain scenes. These sequences -- breathless and jangly chases, for the most part -- look terrific.
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