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Elegy

Isabel Coixet
Spain / 2007 / 113 min / Spanish with English subtitles

Driven by Isabel Coixet's visually assured and deeply observant direction, Elegy charts the turbulent relationship between an aging, celebrated college professor, and his student. 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. Starring Academy Award®-winner Ben Kingsley and Oscar®-nominee Penelope Cruz, with extraordinary supporting performances from Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson and Peter Sarsgaard, Elegy is based on Pulitzer Prize-winner Philip Roth's short novel The Dying Animal.