Penelope Cruz & Ben Kingsley Doing Erotic Thriller

Not exactly two names I would normally associate with an erotic thriller, but the fact it has one of my favorite actresses Penelope Cruz in it, I am definitely interested. According to ProductionWeekly Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz are attached to topline the feature “Elegy,” based on Philip Roth’s 2001 novel “The Dying Animal,” an erotic adventure that evolves over eight years into a story of grim loss. Spanish director Isabel Coixet (”The Secret Life of Words”) is scheduled to begin six weeks of principal photography April 24th in Vancouver.

 

In the film Kingsley, would play David Kepesh, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college, he meets Consuela Castillo (Cruz), a decorous, well-mannered student of twenty-four, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder. Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, when he left his wife and child, Kepesh has experimented with living what he calls an “emancipated manhood,” beyond the reach of family or a mate. Over the years he has refined that exuberant decade of protest and license into an orderly life in which he is both unimpeded in the world of eros and studiously devoted to his aesthetic pursuits. But the youth and beauty of Consuela, “a masterpiece of volupte,” undo him completely, and a maddening sexual possessiveness transports him to the depths of deforming jealousy.