MOVIE REVIEW: 'Elegy'

By RENE RODRIGUEZ - McClatchy Newspapers In "Elegy," Ben Kingsley plays David Kepesh, an erudite, 60-something literature professor who reviews plays for The New Yorker, writes books on the origins of American hedonism and likes his women young. When he sets out to seduce one of his former students, a Cuban woman named Consuela (Penelope Cruz), we're made to understand she will simply be another conquest, a way for him to amuse and pleasure himself for a spell, appease his still-raging virility and, at his ripe old age, remain engaged "in the carnal aspects of the human comedy." Then something unexpected happens: For the first time in his life, Kepesh falls in love. He falls "hard." What's worse, for him, is that Consuela is equally smitten. It might have been easier if she wasn't. Then all the insecurities that torment the... [read full story]