As an English major in college I intuited that Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was a book that I could skip with impunity.
With the arrival of the latest movie version - over the decades there have been 10 or more productions - I have caught up. Aha. And it was fairly easy. I recommend it.
Set on giant, detail-rich stages and in ice-encrusted trains and sun-kissed farms, director Joe Wright, he of Atonement, The Soloist and Pride & Prejudice (Keira Knightly version), seems to aim for clarity as well as theatricality.
All appears elegant, even the sex scenes between the magnetic Knightly and Count Vronsky, a golden cupcake of a prince.
But must not destruction smite people who live for passion? Ahem. I will not reveal.
I will recommend.
Friday, December 28, 2012
Sex and suspicion: the Keira Knightly version of Anna Karenina an opulent odyssey on a sumptuous stage
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