CONTAINS SPOILERS... Elegy is a film about a Prof. (Ben Kingsley) who has an affair with a Art Student (Penelope Cruz)who is much younger than himself. She is drop dead gorgeous, he feels that she will dump him eventually for a much younger...
- 10.January.2011
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- by: Netflowers
- Netflowers rated this movie
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CONTAINS SPOILERS... Elegy is a film about a Prof. (Ben Kingsley) who has an affair with a Art Student (Penelope Cruz)who is much younger than himself. She is drop dead gorgeous, he feels that she will dump him eventually for a much younger man. So he keeps an emotional distance between them. The beautiful young student keeps trying to have a full throttle relationship, ignoring the age difference. The Prof. fears leads to a break-up because he will not go to meet her relatives at a graduation party. A couple of years go by and the young beautiful student reaches out to the Professor and tells him that she has cancer. Now the Professor realizes how foolish his fears were, he was worrying about being to old for her. His fears kept him from having a normal loving relationship. You never know how much time you have for anything. Life is one day at a time. We are all dying, some faster than others. A 5 STAR FILM.
- 10.January.2011
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- by: Netflowers
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This is a movie that had so much potential. There's a fabulous cast, no doubt, and the acting was great, but something was missing, or the story just didn't have enough glue holding the parts together. Ben Kingsley's character was interesting, but...
- 03.July.2009
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- by: coolmallu
- coolmallu rated this movie6/10Okay
This is a movie that had so much potential. There's a fabulous cast, no doubt, and the acting was great, but something was missing, or the story just didn't have enough glue holding the parts together. Ben Kingsley's character was interesting, but not especially sympathetic, and we never see enough of Consuela's character to really bond with her. And is this is intended to simply be a clear portrayal of isolation, well, they manage that, but not in a way that makes me care. I liked it enough to give it a 3, but I was expecting it to be a 4.
- 03.July.2009
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- by: coolmallu
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It seemed like an ideal choice, what with the talents of Kingsley and Cruz at work. But it was a disappointment. The male characters weren't written well and Cruz was misused/underused yet again in an English film. It seems to be the rare movie that...
- 25.April.2009
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- by: ntynes
- ntynes rated this movie6/10Okay
It seemed like an ideal choice, what with the talents of Kingsley and Cruz at work. But it was a disappointment. The male characters weren't written well and Cruz was misused/underused yet again in an English film. It seems to be the rare movie that gets her working properly. But she can do it - see Aldomovar's anything, but particularly Volver. Here, she's reduced to an art object - an object of beauty, which could have had curious implications but it's played out so lamely. The discussions between Kingsley and Hopper have a surface grit but really become cliched as the film closes out. The final 'twist' at the end really just leaves things unsatisfied because it seems so expected, so cliched. A peek at the extras revealed the men were written (at least for the screen) by a woman and it was a woman director. It's a story told from a man's point of view. I wouldn't have thought that'd be an issue but it proved to be so. It's clear why femail actors prefer female directors or at least writers with some understanding of the female psyche. That's the issue here, only reversed, making the final takeaway of the film: cliched, underacted and awkward.
- 25.April.2009
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- by: ntynes
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