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Elegy
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life, which he indicates is a state of 'emancipated manhood', thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
19 June 1973, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
17 October 1972, Toronto, Canada
1 July 1945, Miami, Florida, USA
29 December 1959, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
8 September 1955, Hampstead, London, England, UK
18 April 1980, British Columbia, Canada
1 March 1977, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
13 April 1972, Chicago, Illinois, USA
24 March 1975, Puyallup, Washington, USA
6 July 1975, Montréal, Québec, Canada
13 July 1983, Berwick, Nova Scotia, Canada
April 10, 2009
An intelligent tale of aging, beauty, love and loss.
August 22, 2008
Elegy gives Ben Kingsley one of the best roles of his career.
September 04, 2008
Elegy is a rare treat: a serious film that, thanks to Kingsley and the rest, doesn't seem to take itself too seriously.
April 10, 2009
A film which stays and stays.
October 23, 2009
There are moments when the story sags, as it postures and revels in its own eloquence, but with strong performances and a moving final act, this is still a fine, thought-provoking film.
July 29, 2011
Your final affection for this literary treat of sorts is how well you accept the finale, which is touching, and intellectually potent, yet possibly one depressant too many.
October 18, 2008
Sparse, low-budget drama, helmed by Spaniard Isabel Coixet, intelligently translates Roth's meditation on lust and mortality without soft-pedaling its narrator's brutally honest, unabashedly sexist views.
April 13, 2009
No se ubica entre lo mejor de la directora Isabel Coixet, pero es de todos modos una interesante y sensible reflexión sobre la soledad, el amor, el sexo y la madurez. Gran trabajo de Ben Kingsley.
October 18, 2008
Penelope Cruz is outstanding in an otherwise lame male fantasy.
August 29, 2008
A remarkable example of the actor at his best -- conveying wounded hurt or burning hunger with a glance.
November 10, 2008
With his fierce, impeccable craft Kingsley shows us around David's tortured, preening, desperate psyche.
August 15, 2011
A proven favorite, the Horny Old Devil Professor - Ben Kingsley in Isabel Coixet's intelligent but weepy drama.