Fresh
With his fierce, impeccable craft Kingsley shows us around David's tortured, preening, desperate psyche.
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com
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Elegy
Overview
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Director and cast
- Isabel Coixet Director
- Penélope Cruz as Consuela Castillo
- Ben Kingsley as David Kepesh
- Patricia Clarkson as Carolyn
- Peter Sarsgaard as Kenneth Kepesh
- Dennis Hopper as George O'Hearn
- Sonja Bennett as Beth
- Chelah Horsdal as Susan Reese
- Shaker Paleja as Kris Banjee
- Charlie Rose as Charlie Rose
- Kris Pope as Consuelas Bruder
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
75%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Sparse, low-budget drama, helmed by Spaniard Isabel Coixet, intelligently translates Roth's meditation on lust and mortality without soft-pedaling its narrator's brutally honest, unabashedly sexist views.
Leslie Felperin, Variety
Rotten
Penelope Cruz is outstanding in an otherwise lame male fantasy.
Ray Bennett, Hollywood Reporter
Fresh
Elegy is a rare treat: a serious film that, thanks to Kingsley and the rest, doesn't seem to take itself too seriously.
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
Fresh
A remarkable example of the actor at his best -- conveying wounded hurt or burning hunger with a glance.
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
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