Quite often auteurs don’t lose sleep over whether their movie will connect with a greater audience or not. It’s always about what they want to say to the world at that given point in time. You’re either along for the ride, or you’re not.

Darren Aronofsky has built his canon on a string of edgy, yet eerily grounded, features, i.e. Black Swan (which just had an Imax re-release this past weekend grossing $850K), The Wrestler, Mother! , the list goes on. These have been audacious swings, and in the case of Mother! was polarizing with a rare F CinemaScore.

But don’t think that the audience is never on Aronofsky’s mind:

“(Filmmaker) Stuart Rosenberg, my mentor, use to have a sign on his desk ‘Where is my audience now?’ I think that it’s super important for a filmmaker to constantly be

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