THE WHALE. It is an easy, reductive, even dismissive temptation to qualify Darren Aronofsky's work as "difficult" or "challenging." Ambitious? Polarizing? Indubitably. But in referring.
Darren Aronofsky returns with one of the best films of his career, which premieres in competition at this year’s Venice film festival. His first movie in five years, since the divisive horror Mother!, The Whale also marks a remarkable, blazing return to form for Brendan Fraser. The actor plays Charlie, a man so morbidly obese he’s confined to his crummy.