ELEGY

Year: 2008
USA: Samuel Goldwyn Films
UK: Entertainment Film Distributors
Cast: Penelope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard, Kris Pope, Deborah Harry, Antonio Cupo, Chelah Horsdal, Sonja Bennett
Director: Isabel Coixet
Country: USA
USA & UK: 112 mins
USA Rated: R for sexuality, nudity and language
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language and sex
USA Release Date: 8 August 2008 (Limited Release)
UK Release Date: 8 August 2008 (Limited Release)


Synopsis

Starring Oscar�-nominee Penelope Cruz and Academy Award�-winner Ben Kingsley, 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.

Driven by Isabel Coixet's visually assured and deeply observant direction, ELEGY charts the passionate relationship between a celebrated college professor and a young woman whose beauty both ravishes and destabilizes him. 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.