Elegy is a movie directed by Isabel Coixet in 2008 and based on the book The Dying Animal by Philip Roth, first published in 2001. The movie features Ben Kingsley, Penélope Cruz, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard, Deborah Harry, and others.
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Storyline
David Kepesh is a cultural critic and professor, in a state of ’emancipated manhood’: His relationships with women are usually casual, brief and sexual in nature. David will find his life thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Movie vs Book
Year
2008
Minutes
112
Movie Rate
6.70
Source: IMDb
Year
2001
Pages
156
Book Rate
7.26
S: Goodreads
Book
The Dying Animal
Author: Philip Roth
Country: USA
First published in: 2001
Length: 156 pages
Genre: Fiction
User polls & recommendations
“I'm always really impressed when a movie can function like a novel does - that's so hard to do.”
GIA COPPOLA (Filmmaker)
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