Spectacular, deep and moving ADULT film

I completely agre RT, I loved this film. Moving is the right word. It was so powerful and well done that I forgot it was a movie. I felt I was glimpsing real lives. Losing sense of time is the highest compliment I can give a film and it's rare.

I agree. I've watched it twice within 6 months and it's still one of the best movies I've seen: teriffic directing, good music and exquisite acting.

Would you recommend any other movies similar to this one? Similar not in terms of a plot but rather mature directing and fully-fledged characters. I remember enjoying Lantana (2001, dir. Ray Lawrence with Anthony LaPaglia and Rachael Blake). And also some parts of Little Children (2006, dir. Todd Field). And Michael Caine in Sleuth (2007 - the film was totally panned by the critics). Linklater's Before Sunset wasn't very bad, either.

Any advice?

^^^^^ A valid point, still the film was thought provoking, nuanced and well acted. And a number of people seemed to have been quite moved by it. I liked that Kepesh’ s denouement was left for the viewer to decide.


"Stick with me baby, and you'll be fartin' thru silk!"

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i liked Elegy as well.

Have you seen Educating Rita? It's a Michael Caine film from the 80's that has a couple of things in common with Elegy: an adult male in crisis, a "relationship" between an older man and younger woman, and an academic setting. The relationship in ER, however, is a platonic one.

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Oh my goodness! I just flopped the nuts!

There are many ways to say a movie isn’t engaging. It is boring etc. Adult movies always puzzle me. The characters in this day and age are invariably a type; so after seeing this type paraded in front of the screen [Woody Allen movies] over and over again, it begins to get tedious.
Right out of the gate, Kingsley’s character is a smug child of the 60s we’ve seen more times than we can count. In the quotes section, read the exchange with C Rose.

If you remember, only a decade earlier, if you wanted to have sex, if you wanted to make love in the 1950s, you had to beg for it, you had to cop a feel.
Charlie Rose: Or... get married.
David Kepesh: As I did in the 1960s.
Charlie Rose: Any regrets?
David Kepesh: Plenty. Um, but that's our secret. Don't tell anybody.
[laughter]
David Kepesh: That's just between you and me.

Ha, ha, nudge-nudge wink-wink, couple guys after younger snatch while we blame it all on the Puritans. Out of the gate, one strike.
Now I patiently watch self confessed male predator go after sweet P Cruz. Once bedded, strike two arises: jealousy. Not an adult kind, but a self possessed teenager in love jealousy. To give universal qualities to an immature smug jerk is a step too far to take. I’ve always resented the movie Clueless because I just love all it connotes: of someone actually being ‘clueless’- Ben K character is profoundly clueless.
The third strike is alas not much different than our younger critics- it was boring.
As for adult/mature themes bagging beautiful women isn’t one of them- a minimal requirement is that a mature adult character is committed to another and deals with responsibilities. To address your ‘name a movie that… One very similar in theme Kazan’s the Arrangement. An even creekier one is Dodsworth.
Or something more high brow like Wild Strawberries or better yet Scenes from a Marriage where the characters share B Kingley’s smug conceits- just look at how Erland J sneers! Those are just off the top of my head.

13 years later, but I just watched this for the first time, and want to say I completely agree with the OP. Excellent movie, and the performances were great.