WHEN
Saturday 22nd March
7pm start for pre-drinks
Film start 8:30 (film duration 112 minutes)
WHERE
Thornbury Picture House, Melbourne
Cinema Erotica returns with Elegy, a haunting study of love, loss, and desire. Adapted from Philip Roth’s The Dying Animal, Isabel Coixet’s film follows a professor whose carefully controlled world unravels when he falls for a captivating student.
A meditation on desire, power, and the passage of time, Elegy explores the intricate dance between longing and fear.
Through the eyes of multiple characters, the story unravels the complexities of aging and intimacy, where attraction becomes entangled with control, and passion is shadowed by the inevitability of loss. At its center is a professor whose carefully curated world fractures when an affair with a captivating student forces him to confront his own vulnerabilities. As desire intensifies, so too does his fear—of intimacy, of obsession, of what it means to surrender to another.
In this web of power and yearning, Elegy traces the fleeting nature of connection, the weight of time, and the truths we resist until they can no longer be ignored.
The evening commences with a social hour where guests can enjoy drinks from 7 pm, followed by the screening at 8:30 pm.
Given the intimate size of Thornbury Picture House and thus having only 57 tickets available, we highly recommend securing your tickets in advance to avoid missing out.
