MOVIE · 2008

Elegy

DramaRomance112 min

An aging cultural critic and professor in New York has built his life around distance: casual affairs, sharp opinions, and no lasting attachments. That balance shifts when he begins a relationship with Consuela, a much younger student whose self-possession unsettles his usual control. As desire turns into something more vulnerable, jealousy, class differences, and his fear of intimacy start to warp what might have been simple. Ben Kingsley and Penélope Cruz center a story that stays close to the push and pull between appetite and attachment, as the affair forces him to confront aging, possessiveness, and the limits of the life he has chosen.