Isabel Coixet

When Ben Kingsley gets hold of a role he really connects with (I don’t mean one of those shticky New Yawk scoundrels he loves to overplay in You Kill Me or The Wackness), he has no need to create fireworks; he lights up a character from within. In Elegy, which is adapted from Philip Roth’s novella The Dying Animal, Kingsley portrays the sort of aging lothario who is usually reduced to a type — David Kepesh, a 60ish academic and critic who uses his minor-league celebrity to hustle graduate students into bed. Kingsley, with his forlorn eagle stare, makes a study of this man’s ... Read Full Story

London, Aug 6 (IANS) Spanish star Penelope Cruz’s intimate scenes with Ben Kingsley in their new film “Elegy” were shot behind closed doors with director Isabel Coixet insisting that everyone left the sets for the awkward parts. Contactmusic.com quotes Cruz as saying: “Nobody else but the director was in the room. She was operating the […] More: continued here Read Full Story

AFM News: 'Elegy' director casts Kikuchi and Lopez in drama -- Rinko Kikuchi and Sergi Lopez will star in Isabel Coixet's "Map of the Sounds of Tokyo," the Spanish director's follow-up to Penelope Cruz starrer "Elegy." Read Full Story

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Weekly: Coixet, Bayona, Plympton contribute to festival -- At the Sitges film fest, helmer Isabel Coixet unspooled a trailer for “Don’t Talk to Me About Life When I’m Dying,” a follow-up to her Ben Kingsley-Penelope Cruz starrer “Elegy.” Read Full Story