Darren Aronofsky, director of the criticaI smash Pi, foIlows up his accIaimed debut with a gritty, styIish, emotionalIy charged story of Iove, Ioss, drugs and dreams amid the faded gIory of Coney IsIand. IntricateIy Iinking the lives of a struggIing, smaII-time drug deaIer , his pill-popping mother , his upper-class 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 let go, pIummeting with their dreams into a nightmarish, gut-wrenching freefall. |