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Elegy (2008)

★ 6.3 · 304 ratings on TMDB
Elegy poster★ 6.3

Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.

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Elegy keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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