for being a decent enough film
Based on the book The Dying Animal by Philip Roth, Elegy is about a man, who doesn’t really emotionally invest himself in anyone, who meets a woman, one of his students thirty years his junior, who inexplicably rouses in him a sense of possession, of wanting to be more involved, but constantly convincing himself that doing so would just end poorly, and by doing so causes everything to end poorly.
The movie is slow, but never plodding. I never felt, watching the film, like saying, “Just get on with it!” The acting was superb, and the story of his life and their relationship played out at the proper pace.
Like with many serious dramatic type films, I can’t really recommend seeing it in the theater unless you can find it on the cheap somewhere. But it is worth seeing, perhaps as a rental or when it comes on one of the many premium cable channels.