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Film season proving to be popular with the public
THIS season's programme by the Eastbourne Film Society at the Curzon Cinema with screenings open to the general public is proving particularly outstanding as regards the quality of the acting on view.
Earlier films have featured stand-out performances from Peter O'Toole and the Italian actor Toni Servillo and now next Wednesday in the American film Elegy Sir Ben Kingsley is absolutely remarkable in a role that could not be more different from his famed appearance in Gandhi.
Elegy is an adaptation of a novella by the revered author Philip Roth and it is directed by Isabel Coixet thus creating a useful balance.
It's useful because this is the story of a professor in his sixties who has an eye for younger women including students of his who have graduated.
The latest ex-student to catch his eye is played by Penlope Cruz who has rarely looked more beautiful and the film is compassionate but critical in its portrait of a man whose obsession for youth ultimately makes him a pathetic figure.
A great supporting cast offers Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard and Dennis Hopper in pitch-perfect performances and by having a female director the risk of the professor's behaviour being excused too easily is avoided.
Instead we are given a real insight into such a person and Kingsley realises the character to perfection.
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Saturday 04 February 2012
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