Elegy (2008)

Cast and Crew

Director

Producer

Screenwriter

Starring

• Penelope Cruz as Consuela Castillo
• Ben Kingsley as David Kepesh
• Patricia Clarkson as Carolyn
• Peter Sarsgaard as Kenneth Kepesh
• Dennis Hopper as George O'Hearn
• Deborah Harry
• Sonja Bennett
• Chelah Horsdal

Movie Story

Driven by Isabel Coixet's visually assured and deeply observant direction, "Elegy" charts the passionate relationship between a celebrated college professor and a young woman whose beauty both ravishes and destabilizes him. 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, to reveal and to transform.

David Kepesh (Sir Ben Kingsley) glories in the pursuit of adventurous female students but never lets any woman get too close. When gorgeous Consuela Castillo (Penelope Cruz) enters his classroom, however, his protective veneer dissolves. Her raven-haired beauty both captivates and unsettles him.

Even if Kepesh declares her body a perfect work of art, Consuela is more than an object of desire. She has a strong sense of herself and an emotional intensity that challenges his preconceptions. Kepesh's need for Consuela becomes an obsession, but ultimately his jealous fantasies of betrayal drive her away.

Shattered, Kepesh faces up to the ravages of time, immersing himself in work and confronting the loss of old friends. Then, two years later, Consuela comes back into his life--with an urgent, desperate request that will change everything.

"Elegy" is based on Pulitzer Prize-winner Philip Roth's short novel "The Dying Animal."

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Reader's Reviews

Music is very nice in this movie

posted by fan on Aug 04, 2008

Very fine film,sterling performances all round.Soundtrack fits well,Debbie harry looking frumpy but still hottish undeneath.

posted by johnboy on Aug 11, 2008

What a huge waste of time, actually hate this more than the english patient.

posted by Boopy on Sep 08, 2008

Brilliant in every way- utterly powerful in its expression of aging, lust, love, tenderness and genuine angst.

posted by yankeefan30 on Sep 23, 2008

Fantastic movie, although one can get a completely different feeling than from the trailer. Movie is slower, and plot

posted by Babs on Sep 30, 2008

loved it

posted by Triin on Nov 11, 2008

i need to know the name of the opera in the movie

posted by Pablito on Dec 03, 2008

What to say ...one of the best movie ever ..You can download music from eMule just tipe in search : Elegy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrac

posted by KOkO on Mar 13, 2009

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posted by holmancall on Jul 30, 2009

If you have to do it, you might as well do it right.

posted by adipex nrop on Aug 03, 2009

all the songs aren't on the soundtrack and i want to know some of the piano pieces. any help on where to find them?

posted by john on Aug 31, 2009

my favorite soundtrack so far..

posted by NIKKI on Sep 12, 2009