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BERLIN -- With some fine naturalistic acting, Penelope Cruz just about saves Isabel Coixet's gloomy drama Elegy from drowning in the drippy male fantasies of author Philip Roth, on whose short novel the film is based.

Cruz plays a dignified and sheltered student from Cuba named Consuela whose vulnerability is exploited by literary professor David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley) in order to get her into bed... Read the full review and more at hollywoodreporter.com.

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