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Release date:
Friday, August 8, 2008
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Elegy

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R | 1hr 48min | Drama
Produced by Gary Lucchesi, Tom Rosenberg, Domenico Procacci
Written by Nicholas Meyer, Philip Roth
Directed by Isabel Coixet
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Ben Kingsley, Penélope Cruz, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard
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Synopsis...
Charismatic professor David Kepesh glories in the pursuit of adventurous female students but never lets any woman get too close. When gorgeous Consuela Castillo enters his classroom, however, his protective veneer dissolves. Her raven-haired beauty both captivates and unsettles him. Even if Kepesh declares her body a perfect work of art, Consuela is more than an object of desire. She has a strong sense of herself and an emotional intensity that challenges his preconceptions. Kepesh's need for Consuela becomes an obsession, but ultimately his jealous fantasies of betrayal drive her away. Shattered, Kepesh faces up to the ravages of time, immersing himself in work and confronting the loss of old friends. Then, two years later, Consuela comes back into his life-with an urgent, desperate request that will change everything.    hide


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10-14-2008
DuffyShort
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Othelloish professor David Kepesh becomes especially enamored with an adventurous female student, the gorgeous Consuela Castillo. She is perhaps the first true love of his life. The obvious reference in the movie to the \"beast with two backs\" is backed up with other themes from the Shakespearean play. The similarities are many and include the older guy/ younger girl, the soccer reference that older guys can\'t keep up with younger girls, lovers of different heritages, uncontrolled jealously by the male, fear of confrontation with the parents (father) and he really doesn\'t realize what he has until it is gone. Conversely they end the movie in a bed, though alive, not dead, after she has a health episode. The theme is that love blinds Kepesh, and that it keeps him from seeing the truth.


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08-28-2008
Blythe
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Elegy should have been re-titled "Beauty and the Sexy Beast" which chronicles the pathetic pathology of an unlikely roué played by an otherwise sympathetic Ben Kingsley and the luminous Penelope Cruz. Unlike Kundera, Roth's onscreen adaptation reads like the unbearable lightness of boring.


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