Elegy

Elegy

  • Director: Isabel Coixet
  • Writer: Nicholas Meyer,Philip Roth
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English, Spanish
  • Release date: April 18, 2008
  • Sound mix: SDDS, DTS, Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Elegy: Dying Animal
  • "Elegy" is a romantic film directed by Isabel Coixet Castillo and starring Penélope Cruz Sánchez and Ben Kingsley , which was released in Spain on April 18, 2008.
    Adapted from Philip Roth 's novel "The Dying Flesh ", the film tells the story of a love story that spans the age gap between David Kopesh and Consula Castillo, who has entered his teens   .

    Details

    • Release date April 18, 2008
    • Filming locations Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
    • Production companies Lakeshore Entertainment

    Box office

    Budget

    $13,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $3,581,642

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $104,168

    Gross worldwide

    $14,894,347

    Movie reviews

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    • By Santos 2022-06-27 12:19:58

      Dirge: The Existence of the Spirit is the Progress of Life

      Does the body matter or the mind? Everyone has their answer. It's like asking which came first: the egg or the chicken.

      Of course, the old man can't refuse a beautiful body. The body is very important to him. But is the body the most important thing? He can't stand mediocrity without his wife and children, and his life is inseparable from art and poet friends. These are all explorations of the spiritual world. The student, who has maintained a sexual relationship with him for 20 years,...

    • By Tess 2022-04-23 07:05:39

      old and young

      The love between a girl in her twenties and an old man in her sixties. An old man in his 60s, with a strong physique and a black leather jacket, he can take care of himself and is full of wisdom and literary atmosphere. A girl in her twenties is so beautiful. The old man seduced the girl, and the girl fell in love with the old man. When two people stand together, you will feel that this is really love. But the old man was finally afraid. He knew that one day in the future, a young man would...

    • By Julie 2022-04-23 07:05:39

      do i still love you

      Elegy, Dying Animal. In Carp. I saw about this movie in Hormones, and came to see it, half of my body was bathed in the quiet afternoon sun, and half of my heart was warmed.

         I have always fantasized about being a woman like Consuela, with a body that swims and slips like a young fish, golden brown hair and face, beautiful breasts, eyes and feelings that are clean and translucent like luxury crystals, and also, there is a person like A man like David, with a shiny and sexy bald...

    • By Katlyn 2022-04-23 07:05:39

      Excellent actress from Spain

      This movie has been known for a long time, and I just bought it recently. I have read an article on Penelope before, mentioning this movie, and greatly appreciated Penelope's acting skills.

      After viewing, I very much agree with Penelope's evaluation. Penelope is very beautiful, not only beautiful, but also very superb in her acting skills. She portrays women's happiness, melancholy, fear, and longing very well.

      Although the plot of the second half of the movie ended a little...

    • By General 2022-04-23 07:05:39

      Unknown

      I don't know what to do, but I have always been in love. After reading "Elegy" for a long time, I have been thinking about how to comment on this kind of year-end love and teacher-student love. The heroine Kang Sula is the heroine of the critic, artist, and heroine. Students, they are thirty years apart. The story begins with David telling the poet himself. David is an old intellectual who experienced sexual liberation in the 1960s in the United States. He flaunts freedom and independence and...

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    • By Ulises 2022-04-03 09:01:11

      Xiao Panpan can't control this kind of literary and artistic film, and it's too beautiful to test acting skills and...

    • By Kole 2022-04-03 09:01:11

      The biggest surprise in a man's life is getting...

    • By Dora 2022-04-03 09:01:11

      Coincidentally, both this movie and the EYE OF THE BEHOLDER that I just watched yesterday said: BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, many people translate it into a lover's...

    • By Quinn 2022-04-03 09:01:11

      A very literary film. And it's the kind of movie that has a strong American literary character. But I just can't stand kingsley's big bald head superimposed on the big beauty's head. ....

    • By Garett 2022-04-03 09:01:11

      Truly a work of art...so...

    Movie plot

    David Kopesh (Ben Kingsley) in olden days is a well-known literary critic in New York, and he is hired to teach at a university, and his career can be regarded as a small success. David has never been able to keep pace with his work in his personal life. Although he has been divorced for a long time with his ex-wife Caroline (Patricia Clarkson) , he has always maintained a close and even ambiguous relationship with his ex-wife, who is...
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    Evaluation action

    "Elegy" touches the heartstrings of viewers by combining its hero and heroine's fear of death and their pursuit of love. The film uses David's subjective narration as a clue to narrate the story in a combination of sequence and interlude, from David and Conswella's meeting to falling in love, to separation and reconciliation, the keynote of the film Slow and unique, it is flat and straightforward without being boring. In addition to...
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    Movie quotes

    • David Kepesh: [interview on the Charlie Rose show] We're not all descended from the Puritans.

      Charlie Rose: No?

      David Kepesh: There was another colony 30 miles from Plymouth, it's not on the maps today. Marymount it was called.

      Charlie Rose: Yeah, alright, you mention in your book...

      David Kepesh: The colony where anything goes, went.

      Charlie Rose: There was booze...

      David Kepesh: here was booze. There was fornication. There was music. There was... they even ah, ah, ah, you name it, you name it. They even danced around the maypole once a month, wearing masks, worshiping god knows what, Whites and Indians together, all going for broke...

      Charlie Rose: Who was responsible for all of this?

      David Kepesh: A character by the name of Thomas Morton.

      Charlie Rose: Aah, the "Hugh Hefner" of the Puritans.

      David Kepesh: You could say that. I'm going to read you a quote of what the Puritans thought of Morton's followers: 'Debauched bacchanalians and atheists, falling into great licentiousness, and leading degenerate lives'. When I heard that, I packed my bags, I left Oxford, and I came straight to America, America the licentious.

      Charlie Rose: So what happened to all of those people?

      David Kepesh: Well, the Puritans shot them down. They sent in Miles Standish leading the militia. He chopped down the maypole, cut down those colored ribbons, banners, everything; party was over

      Charlie Rose: And we became a nation of straight-laced Puritans.

      David Kepesh: Well...

      Charlie Rose: Isn't that your point though? The Puritans won, they stamped out all things sexual... how would you say it?

      David Kepesh: Sexual happiness.

      Charlie Rose: Exactly. Until the 1960s.

      David Kepesh: Until the 1960s when it all exploded again all over the place.

      Charlie Rose: Right, everyone was dancing around the maypole, then, make love not war.

      David Kepesh: If you remember, only a decade earlier, if you wanted to have sex, if you wanted to make love in the 1950s, you had to beg for it, you had to cop a feel.

      Charlie Rose: Or... get married.

      David Kepesh: As I did in the 1960s.

      Charlie Rose: Any regrets?

      David Kepesh: Plenty. Um, but that's our secret. Don't tell anybody.

      [laughter]

      David Kepesh: That's just between you and me.

    • George O'Hearn: Life always keeps back more surprises than we could ever imagine.

    • David Kepesh: You know for a Pulitzer prize winning poet, sometimes you display a remarkable lack of imagination.

      George O'Hearn: That's why they gave me the fucking prize.