Elegy

David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley), a cultural critic and professor in New York, begins an affair with Consuela Castillo (Penélope Cruz), a well-mannered student in his class. He has lived for years by his own rule of emancipated manhood, with no one to answer to. Isabel Coixet, working from Philip Roth's novel, watches that rule give way as David grows possessive of a woman he cannot stop wanting.