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.
24 August 1980, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1 March 1977, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
12 July 1985, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
13 July 1983, Berwick, Nova Scotia, Canada
19 June 1973, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
10 January 1978, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
5 March 1982, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
25 May 1976, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
29 December 1959, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
5 January 1942, Henderson, North Carolina, USA
7 March 1971, Belleville, Illinois, USA
31 December 1943, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
18 April 1980, British Columbia, Canada
13 April 1972, Chicago, Illinois, USA
24 March 1975, Puyallup, Washington, USA
17 May 1936, Dodge City, Kansas, USA
6 July 1975, Montréal, Québec, Canada
8 September 1955, Hampstead, London, England, UK
1 July 1945, Miami, Florida, USA
28 April 1974, Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain
17 October 1972, Toronto, Canada
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.
April 10, 2009
A film which stays and stays.
April 10, 2009
An intelligent tale of aging, beauty, love and loss.
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.
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.
August 15, 2011
A proven favorite, the Horny Old Devil Professor - Ben Kingsley in Isabel Coixet's intelligent but weepy drama.
August 29, 2008
A remarkable example of the actor at his best -- conveying wounded hurt or burning hunger with a glance.
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.
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.
October 18, 2008
Penelope Cruz is outstanding in an otherwise lame male fantasy.
August 22, 2008
Elegy gives Ben Kingsley one of the best roles of his career.
November 10, 2008
With his fierce, impeccable craft Kingsley shows us around David's tortured, preening, desperate psyche.
