Elegy

Name: Elegy
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: August 8, 2008
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 66
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson, Penélope Cruz

2008

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Elegy: End Up Like Them

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Samuel Goldwyn Company, The | Release Date: August 8, 2008

Starring: Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson, Penélope Cruz

Summary: Elegy charts the passionate relationship between a celebrated college professor and a young woman whose beauty both ravishes and destabilizes the professor. As their intimate connection transforms them--more than either could imagine--a charged sexual contest evolves into an indelible love story. With humanistic warmth, wry wit, and eroticElegy charts the passionate relationship between a celebrated college professor and a young woman whose beauty both ravishes and destabilizes the professor. As their intimate connection transforms them--more than either could imagine--a charged sexual contest evolves into an indelible love story. With humanistic warmth, wry wit, and erotic intensity, Elegy explores the power of beauty to blind, reveal, and transform. [Samuel Goldwyn Films]… Expand

Director: Isabel Coixet

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 112 min

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San Francisco Chronicle - Ruthe Stein

A richly textured and compelling film. Read full review

USA Today - Claudia Puig

True to its title, Elegy is a spare, meditative and melancholy film. It is a deeply affecting and profoundly observed saga about love, art, beauty and, especially, mortality. Read full review

The New Yorker - David Denby

The Spanish director Isabel Coixet works with candor, directness, and simplicity. She isn't afraid of lengthy scenes of the two actors just talking to each other, mixed with lavish but respectful attention to Cruz's body, especially her bare chest, which is treated as one of the wonders of all creation. Read full review

Baltimore Sun - Michael Sragow

Kingsley dims divine Elegy. Read full review

Chicago Tribune - Michael Phillips

Elegy is a curious example of misplaced good taste. Read full review

The New York Times - Manohla Dargis

The problem with Elegy has nothing to do with faithfulness and everything to do with interpretation. The film is an overly polite take on a spiky, claustrophobic, insistently impolite novel. Read full review

New York Post - Linda Stasi

A windbaggy film of Phillip Roth's novella "The Dying Animal." Read full review

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ElizabethK

Dec 5, 2009

What a sad and beautiful film set in pure simplicity. It's such an honest film. Excellent acting by both leads. Finally! A film not only worth seeing, but seeing again. It makes you think, cry, wonder, question who you are and your own life. Now I need to read the book!