Review: Elegy

Isabel Coixet (My Life Without Me) directed this adaptation of Philip Roth's novel The Dying Animal, starring Sir Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz. Among the film's themes: aging, death, family, fear of commitment, and what a poet played by Dennis Hopper calls the invisibility of beauty -- which is a roundabout way of saying that Penelope Cruz's breasts become a major plot point. Elegy opens today. Read Jürgen's review.