What most fascinated me about this adaptation of Philip Roth‘s short novel, The Dying Animal, is that it’s directed by a woman, Spanish director Isabel Coixet. As Roth is known best for his semi-autobiographical male centered stories with promiscuous themes, Coixet puts a refreshing twist on the womanizing David Kepesh character — who also appears in two other Roth novels, The Breast and The Professor of Desire. Not as well recognized as Roth’s other main protagonist, Nathan Zuckerman, Kepesh is a literature professor who has never had a problem attracting the opposite sex and often times is wooing more than […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Mar 16, 2009