Elegy: Penelope Cruz, A Knockout!
Posted by blk1 on August 22, 2008
Tuvia and I were wowed by Penelope Cruz last week in the new Woody Allen movie and once again in, Elegy, where she is paired with Ben Kingsley. Based on a Philip Roth novel, maybe more auto-biographical, Ben Kingsley is a successful professor, author, interviewer, man-about-town, lover of the ladies. He is aging and is beginning to feel it. Penelope Cruz walks into his class and he is stricken and doesn’t realize just what this relationship has to offer him.
So far, you might be ho-humming this account, but remember, it’s Ben Kingsley working with Penelope Cruz and they transform a potentially cliched younger woman-older man affair into something that might leave you sobbing, tearing into the depths of your heart. Both Tuvia and I felt the authenticity of this piece. I don’t want to say too much, actually I can’t. I’m digesting.
This is a movie that will linger, and we will share it together when we turn the lights out tonight.
It’s really a masterpiece. Don’t pass it up!
March 16th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
thanks admin
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