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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
414 Views


What's that from?

William Shakespeare!

"Othello, The Moor of Venice".

And we're making a monster

with four legs.

Where shall we have dinner?

I can't, I'm going out tonight.

- You are? With whom?

- With my brother.

We're going to go dancing

to that place "Kalimas".

Your brother...?

You never mentioned a brother.

Well, there is a lot of things

you don't know about me yet.

Thank you.

Here we are.

I really had a great

time with you today.

Me too.

Thank you.

Bye.

Bye.

Are you really going out with

your brother tonight?

David!

That was a joke.

Bye.

On the nights she isn't

with me I am deformed,

thinking of where she might be.

And all this because this girl

will tell me a thousand times

how much she adores me and means it.

This girl will never once tell

me she yearns for my cock.

How are you?

What are you doing here?

I was on my way to see a friend,

who lives near here.

How's things?

What's the matter?

- Did you came here to check on me?

- I told you.

I was down in the neighborhood

and I saw this place.

Do you want to ruin everything?

No.

So then you're going to have

to start trusting me.

I'll call you tomorrow.

No, I'll call you.

I never behaved like such an

idiot even when I was her age.

Good thing is, at least now,

it's finished, she won't want to

see me anymore. I understand her.

I mean, even I wouldn't want to

see me anymore if I was her.

Maybe it's just as well.

- Yes.

- Just as well.

Oh, my God.

Hello?

David, it's Consuela.

During the last two days

I've been thinking a bit about us.

Have you?

Yes.

And what were you thinking?

That it's all over.

What do you really want from me?

What do I really want from you?

You spend you whole life

going through relationships without

ever really bonding with anyone.

So, at least I would like to know,

who I am for you.

The fact that you're jealous and

possessive doesn't help me, at all.

Even little kids are jealous of their

toys until they get tired of them.

and want new ones. So...

is that how it's going

to be between us two?

Have you ever imagined...

a future with me?

A future with you scares me.

- It scares you?

- Yes.

Why?

Because, there's a 30 odd

year age difference

between you and me,

and you have your whole

life ahead of you.

It's just a matter of time

before you realise it too.

I didn't ask you what I was going to do,

I asked what you wanted to do with me.

When you make love to a woman you

get revenge for all the things

that defeated you in life.

I spent my whole life jumping

from one relationship to another,

because this made me believe that I was

never alone, and that time was not passing.

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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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