| ORIGINAL TITLE |
Anna Karenina |
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| DIRECTOR |
Joe Wright |
| SCREENWRITER |
Tom Stoppard (Novel: León Tostói) |
| COMPOSER |
Dario Marianelli |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER |
Seamus McGarvey |
| CAST |
Keira Knightley, Aaron Johnson, Jude Law, Domhnall Gleeson, Kelly Macdonald, Olivia Williams, Ruth Wilson, Matthew Macfadyen, Emily Watson, Michelle Dockery, Jude Monk McGowan, Holliday Grainger, Luke Newberry, Alicia Vikander, Susanne Lothar, Oskar McNamara |
| STUDIO/PRODUCER |
Focus Features / Working Title Productions |
| OFFICIAL WEB |
http://focusfeatures.com/anna_karenina/ |
| AWARDS |
2012: Academy Awards: 4 Nominations, Including Best Original Soundtrack
2012: Golden Globes: Nominated to Best Score
2012: BAFTA Awards: Best Costume Design. 6 Nominations
2012: Satellite Awards: 6 nominations |
| GENRE |
Romance. Drama | Costume Drama. The 19th Century |
| SYNOPSIS/PLOT |
Late 19th century, Russian high society. At the age of 18, demure and elegant socialite Anna Karenina (Keira Knightley) has been promised to marry senior statesman Count Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin (Jude Law). Her new husband is 20 years Anna's senior and although the young woman doesn't love her rather dull and unemotional spouse, she bears him a son.
While at a ball, Anna finds herself attracted to a young, wealthy cavalry officer named Count Vronsky (Aaron Johnson). Vronsky is captivated by Anna's beauty and grace and it doesn't take long for the young man to profess his unyielding love and desire to wed this already-married woman. Anna cannot deny feeling a strong connection to Vronsky, but when her husband finds about about the two of them, he threatens to deny Anna access to her young son. Despite the handsome young aristocrat's passionate bid for her love, Anna struggles to accept the Count's conditions whilst abiding by the guidelines put in place by her blueblood upper class society.
Based on the classic novel by Leo Tolstoy. |
| PRO REVIEWS |
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"This tight and pacy telling of a 900 page-plus novel touches a number of its important bases but lacks emotional depth, moral resonance and the simple ability to allow its rich characters to experience and drink deeply of life" (Todd McCarthy: The Hollywood Reporter)
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"Joe Wright makes the generally inspired decision to stylize his dark, expressionist take on 'Anna Karenina' (...) but its covert anti-romanticism may limit appeal beyond specialty auds. (Leslie Felperin: Variety)
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"In making the radical artistic choice to tell the story as if it were being enacted by players on a stage, Wright falls passionately in love with his own fanciful artifices" (Lisa Schwarzbaum: Entertainment Weekly)
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"It is risky and ambitious enough to count as an act of artistic hubris, and confident enough to triumph on its own slightly - wonderfully - crazy terms" (A. O. Scott: The New York Times)
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"James Joyce once wrote that [Tolstoy] was 'never dull, never stupid, never tired, pedantic or theatrical.' He might change his mind if he saw Anna Karenina. (Rex Reed: The New York Observer)
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