Take a look at the first five minutes of “
Elegy,” directed by
Isabel Coixet, based on Pulitzer Prize-winner
Philip Roth’s short novel “
The Dying Animal” starring Academy Award-winner
Ben Kingsley and Oscar-nominee
Penelope Cruz, with extraordinary supporting performances from
Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson and
Peter Sarsgaard.
In the movie, cultural critic David Kepesh (Kingsley) finds his life, which he indicates is a state of “emancipated manhood,” thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo (Cruz), a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
