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| The Fountain | 
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| Creators: Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet, Mogwai
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
Buy New: $13.65
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (57 reviews)
Sales Rank: 6450
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 79901
UPC: 075597990126
EAN: 0075597990126
ASIN: B000IU3YKU
Release Date: November 21, 2006
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| Customer Reviews:
Fantastic May 16, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This score is evidence of Clint Mansell's maturing as a composer. His theme for Requiem for a Dream was hauntingly beautiful, but the rest of the score does not quite hold together outside of the movie. The Fountain is very thematic, with each piece experimenting with and playing upon the main theme. The result is a coherent CD that is breathtaking. On the film, it is of course a stunning addition to a gorgeous film. I highly recommend both.
Death is the road to awe May 13, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Clint Mansell is bound to create masterpieces and this is his new creation.Kronos Quartet meet Mogwai and the result seems magic and extraordinary
Haunting & soaring May 9, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
It's rare for a movie soundtrack to be able to stand on its own as a complete piece of music, but this is definitely one such soundtrack. Previous reviewers have already spoken eloquently of its melancholy & ecstatic beauty, and I can only agree with their comments. If you've seen the movie, then the music will evoke its poignant images & story once more; but if you haven't seen it, you'll still be swept away & deeply moved by this intensely emotional score. Sometimes working through minimalist understatement, sometimes swelling & surging like an ocean of stars & memories, it speaks directly to the heart. Powerfully Romantic, both bleak & comforting, and most highly recommended!
The movie wasn't perfect but the score is. April 30, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Less in your face than Mansell's brillant(and much used in commercials nowadays)score to Requiem for a Dream this is still a great score and another great use of Kronos Quartet.Subtle and haunting at first it builds to an exhilerating climax in the soaring Death is the road to Awe.You don't even have to own the movie to enjoy the hypnotic journey this music takes you on.Most film scores merely get the job done serving up emotional cues(Chase!Love!) but this scoe trancends the ordinary and is really something special.
An amazing soundtrack April 10, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
An amazing soundtrack for an amazing movie. Although the main melody of the theme is not as powerful as that of "Requiem for a dream", I find the soundtrack to be more complete as a whole, pleasurable to listen to from the first track to the last. Solid and aetheric, sad and vibrant, the music, beautifully played, torrents the listener with diverse feelings, while maintaining it's integrity.
The soundtrack begins with soft and gentle strings sounds, building up to more complex melodic lines. The central point of the theme is listened to in many tracks, yet not in the same manner. After more than houf an hour of building up and conveying the message to the listener, the peak of it all is reached in the end of the eleventh track (named "Death is The Road to Awe"), and especially in the 30 seconds of ecstatic, tirumphant and celestial explosion of sound, melody and feelings, accompanying the beautiful scene of the exploding supernova. (The specific scene was one of the most powerful scenes I have ever encountered in a film, trully a road to awe).
This beutifully crafted piece of art then comes to an end with the last track (number 10, "Together We Will Live Forever"), with a soft melody as an echo of the true love, romance and unity that the couple of tormented souls (in the film) have achieved after "reaching the awe" through their own death and rebirth.
I would like it to be longer than 46 minutes, since I've been listening to this very CD continously for days. When it reaches the end of the disk, it's always a pleasure - and a new journey - to begin from the very beggining again, complementing the central theme of the movie, which is that death (end) leads to creation (the beggining of something new).
Even if someone hasn't seen the movie, the soundtrack is a must have.
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