Elegy

Name: Elegy
Genre: Romance, Drama
Released: 2008
Duration: 112 min
Cast: Penélope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard, Dennis Hopper

Isabel Coixet20081h 52mRomance, Drama

Why we chose it

Penélope Cruz and Ben Kingsley star in an adaptation of “The Dying Animal” by the great Philip Roth, directed by Isabel Coixet (“My Life Without Me”). A professor who can’t handle intimacy meets a magnetic, clever student, and it isn’t going to end well.

Synopsis

Consuela Castillo signs up for the lectures of David Kepesh, a literature professor who sleeps with one of his students almost every year, always once the grades are in and never for long. With Consuela, things go differently. Eighteen months later they’re still together, and Kepesh has started to notice every man who looks at her.