Elegy Page #4

Synopsis: David Kepesh is growing old. He's a professor of literature, a student of American hedonism, and an amateur musician and photographer. When he finds a student attractive, Consuela, a 24-year-old Cuban, he sets out to seduce her. Along the way, he swims in deeper feelings, maybe he's drowning. She presses him to sort out what he wants from her, and a relationship develops. They talk of traveling. He confides in his friend, George, a poet long-married, who advises David to grow up and grow old. She invites him to meet her family. His own son, from a long-ended marriage, confronts him. Is the elegy for lost relationships, lost possibilities, beauty and time passing, or failure of nerve?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Isabel Coixet
Production: MGM
  3 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
66
Rotten Tomatoes:
75%
R
Year:
2008
112 min
$3,456,676
Website
413 Views


She came back for more?

You have the most beautiful

breasts I've ever seen.

You like them?

I worship them.

And you have a beautiful face,

I can't stop looking at.

You know something?

You're a work of art.

A work of art.

A real work of art.

Let's talk about you.

Have you had many women?

Why?

More than 50 or less?

More.

Who's counting?

How about you?

Not many.

How many?

Five.

Five boyfriends.

Five.

Five.

I see.

So, who were they?

They were young, right?

Younger than me?

Of course they were younger.

They were boys.

Boys?

Sure.

You want to know the most

extreme thing I ever did?

Hmm well...

Once I went to bed

with two guys together.

Two together?

They were my childhood

friends and...

that's how we ended up one night.

The three of us were drunk and

we ended up in bed together.

All three of you?

Well, when you're 17,

You do a lot of things just to feel

secure and emotional.

Right.

Consuela.

My whole life was

dedicated to independence

and at some cost I had achieved my goal.

Nevertheless, it was in that moment,

That my terrible jealousy was born.

That is when I realised that

I would never, ever,

really possess her.

I feel anxious unless I speak

to her on the phone every day,

and then I feel anxious

after we've spoken.

What are you wearing?

Where are you?

I knew it's only a matter of time

before a young man found

her and took her away.

I knew.

Because I was once that young

man who would have done it.

Well, at least does

it makes you feel young?

It's like playing soccer

with a bunch of 20 year olds.

It doesn't make you feel 20 because

you're playing with huge difference,

every second of the game.

You have to leave her.

Your hands will always be

tied by this girl.

She's going to leave you

sooner or later, anyway.

So it's always better to

keep one step ahead.

Take her to a nice romantic spot

tell her it's over.

That's what I'd do.

My parents talk about all these

places they wanted to go to.

They have all the money to go

wherever they want, but...

leaving Cuba was their first

and last trip.

I don't want my life to be like that.

Let me take you places.

What the hell are you saying?

You brought her here to say goodbye.

- Where would we go?

- Europe.

We could go to Paris this summer,

or Rome, or Madrid.

We can visit the Prado and see the

real Velasquez, the real Goya.

The Prado?

Do you mean it?

Of course I meant it.

And we can finish our trip in Venice,

you'll love Venice.

- And you would ride a gondola with me.

- Maybe.

Maybe.

"Maybe" may be your favorite word.

I'll sing to you in the gondola.

We'll see.

What's this from:

"They're making a beast with two backs".

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Nicholas Meyer

Nicholas Meyer (born December 24, 1945) is an American writer and director, known for his best-selling novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, and for directing the films Time After Time, two of the Star Trek feature film series, and the 1983 television movie The Day After. Meyer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), where he adapted his own novel into a screenplay. He has also been nominated for a Satellite Award, three Emmy Awards, and has won four Saturn Awards. He appeared as himself during the 2017 On Cinema spinoff series The Trial, during which he testified about Star Trek and San Francisco. more…

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