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Some Like It Hot

‘ELEGY' & ‘VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA'

Richard Alleva

David Kepesh, the hero of Elegy, Isabel Coixet’s adaptation of Philip Roth’s The Dying Animal, is on a long sabbatical from intimacy. A professor and minor literary star in New York, he’s estranged from his son, the only child of a marriage that ended in a bitter divorce. He deems his more attractive female students fair game, but in-season only after final exams. Once Ke (...)


 

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