Directed by Isabel Coixet (“My Life Without Me”) and based on Pulitzer Prize winning author Philip Roth’s novel “The Dying Animal”, “Elegy” features incredible performances from Academy Award winners Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz, alongside Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard and Dennis Hopper.
Filled with humanistic warmth, wry wit and erotic intensity, on the one hand “Elegy” is a passionate, indelible love story between a celebrated New York college professor and a young Cuban-born woman.
Yet “Elegy” is also a complex, intelligent and unflinchingly honest meditation on lust, mortality, family, male friendship, intimacy and responsibility.
The film has a real interest in adult ideas rarely seen in today’s cinema, while remaining a powerful and moving dramatic work. In cinemas April 9, 2009
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