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Release Date: 3/17/2009
Original Release: 2008
Format: DVD
Length: 112 minutes
Rating: R (MPAA)
Rating Reason: for sexuality, nudity and language
UPC: 043396274396
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Other Formats:  Elegy DVD (USED)


Directed by: Isabel Coixet
Featuring: Peter Sarsgaard, Penélope Cruz, Deborah Harry, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson, Ben Kingsley

Categories: Dramas, Romance, Theatrical Release, Adaptation, Love, Based On A Novel

Description
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.

DVD Features


Region 1
Keep Case
Full Frame -
1.33
Widescreen -
1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Subtitles - English - Optional

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Technical Specifications
  • Closed Captioned
  • Color - Color


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Average Rating: 4 / 5
Number of Reviews: 2 (view all)
4 / 5  Posted on August 21, 2008
Reviewed by: RONNIE

Elegy, this movie is a touching story about a professor David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley) that hooks-up with one of his students. He falls in love and has intimate relations with her. He is also hung-up on...
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4 / 5  Posted on August 10, 2008
Reviewed by: Jarrod

'Elegy' is an adaptation of Philip Roth's novel The Dying Animal, which is a sad reflection on how a person's self-imposed barriers can sabotage his or her efforts to find true happiness. Ben...
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