A kind of literary film trifecta takes place this coming Friday, November 16, when the following movies open:
- Love in the Time of Cholera, which stars Liev Schreiber and John Leguizamo. Two lovers must wait 50 years in early 20th-century South America to be reunited. The movie tie-in edition is out (Vintage, $14.95, 9780307387141/0307387143).
- Beowulf, which is directed by Robert Zemeckis. Angelina Jolie, Ray Winstone, Brendan Gleeson and Anthony Hopkins star in this adaptation of the epic poem in which the mighty warrior Beowulf must slay Grendel, a murderous monster, and then the beast's vengeful mother.
- Elegy, which stars Ben Kingsley, Dennis Hopper and Penélope Cruz and is directed by Isabel Coixet. Based on the novel The Dying Animal by Philip Roth (Vintage, $12, 9780099422693/0099422697), the movie is the story of a professor who becomes obsessively attracted to one of his students.