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Mood:
- SincereGloomySuspenseful
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Plot:
- Teachers and StudentsDangerDishonestyLove and RomanceMind and SoulCouplesPower RelationsObsession more...
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Genres:
- Drama
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Elegy, 2008
English
USA
Profile of Elegy
The mood of Elegy is sincere, gloomy, and suspenseful. The plot centers around teachers and students, power relations, and dishonesty. It is a drama movie. In approach, Elegy is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. It happens in contemporary times. Elegy is based on a book. Note that it includes nudity, sexual content, and profanity.
Summary of Elegy
Like director Isabel Coixet's previous film MY LIFE WITHOUT ME, ELEGY is consumed by the ideas of love and mortality. But while that film focused on a young protagonist, the hero of this drama is an aging writer and professor played by Ben Kingsley. David Kepesh (Kingsley) is a minor literary celebrity in New York City who shies away from commitment, happy with his casual relationship with a businesswoman (Patricia Clarkson) who is rarely in town. But a date with a stunning grad student named Consuela (Penelope Cruz) surprisingly turns into a long-term romance, changing David from a confident Lothario into a jealous boyfriend. His age and her beauty haunt their romance until David begins to push her away.
As its title suggests, ELEGY achieves a perfectly somber tone. Adapted from the Philip Roth novel THE DYING ANIMAL, the script from Nicholas Meyer (THE HUMAN STAIN) doesn't try too hard for the audience's tears. But much of the credit goes to the cast: Kingsley and Cruz make for a sexy, affectionate couple with their layered performances, and Clarkson (THE STATION AGENT) is wonderful as always. Dennis Hopper is nicely cast as David's philandering friend George, and Blondie frontwoman Deborah Harry is very non-rock-and-roll (but incredibly genuine) in a small appearance as George's longsuffering wife. The largely classical soundtrack further adds to the film's contemplative mood.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 29 April 2008 |
| Runtime: | 112 min |
Cast and Crew
as David Kepesh
as Consuela Castillo
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Critics Reviews
Entertainment Weekly
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- by: Owen Gleiberman
San Francisco Chronicle
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- by: Ruthe Stein
Users Reviews
- 10.January.2011
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- by: Netflowers
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- 03.July.2009
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- by: coolmallu
- coolmallu rated this movie6/10Okay
