By Steve Bodow
Max Cohen - thirtyish, balding, underfed, and a mathematical genius - spends his days and nights locked in his roach-motel apartment, trying obsessively to crack the numerical code that describes, alternately, the essence of the natural world, the fluctuations of the stock market, and the name of God. This is the story of Π, the darkly idiosyncratic debut film by Darren Aronofsky starring Sean Gullette, opening this summer at an art house near you.
Shot in eerie, high-contrast black-and-white, Π recalls another worthy, if weird, first feature: David Lynch's Eraserhead. Dubbed Anti Good Will Hunting at Sundance, won the festival's directing award. It has also won the attention of Hollywood hitters like Ridley Scott, who wants Aronofsky to direct his next project.
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Bad Will Hunting
