Sexual and Intellectual Stimulation: Elegy Trailer

I believe there are a sum total of two possible scenarios where an older gent has any hopes of seducing a much younger female party. One being, the very well accepted notion of the “sugar daddy” status (financially well off to make a younger woman forget about virility and then there is the least likely of the two: charisma – derived from intellectual stimulation. The Berlin film festival presented Isabel Coixet (The Secret Life of
Words, My Life Without
Me) picture (based on Philip Roth’s least acclaimed more recent novels entitled “The Dying Animal,”) pits fellow Spaniard Pénelope Cruz against a Ben Kingsley in such a model.

Samuel Goldwyn Films were able to swoop up the rights to Elegy a good two months after its world premiere – and if this film can benefit from The Weinstein Company’s marketing for Vicky Cristina
Barcelona, then we’ll have a great month of Cruz in sultry roles.

Scripted by Nicholas Meyer, David Kepesh (Kingsley) glories in the pursuit of adventurous female students but never lets any woman get too close. When gorgeous Consuela Castillo (Cruz) enters his classroom, however, his protective veneer dissolves. Her raven-haired beauty both captivates and unsettles him. Even if Kepesh declares her body a perfect work of art, Consuela is more than an object of desire. She has a strong sense of herself and an emotional intensity that challenges his preconceptions.

We’ve got the trailer below for the upcoming August 8th release. Hopefully we’ll have something more significant than Robert Benton’s take on Roth’s The Human Stain.