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Writers (WGA):
Leo Tolstoy (novel)
Bernard Rose (screenplay)
Release Date:
4 April 1997 (USA) more
Tagline:
In a world of power and privilege, one woman dared to obey her heart.
Plot:
Anna (Marceau) is a wife and mother who has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Bean). Based on the novel by Tolstoy. full summary | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
Carnivorous (DVD Review)
(From Fangoria. 27 May 2009, 12:34 PM, PDT)
User Comments:
Eye candy which barely misses the mark! more (36 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Sophie Marceau | ... | Anna Karenina | |
| Sean Bean | ... | Vronsky | |
| Alfred Molina | ... | Levin | |
| Mia Kirshner | ... | Kitty | |
| James Fox | ... | Karenin | |
| Fiona Shaw | ... | Lydia | |
| Danny Huston | ... | Stiva | |
| Phyllida Law | ... | Vronskaya | |
| David Schofield | ... | Nikolai | |
| Saskia Wickham | ... | Dolly | |
| Jennifer Hall | ... | Betsy | |
| Anna Calder-Marshall | ... | Princess Schcherbatksy | |
| Valerie Braddell | ... | Ambassador's Wife | |
| Petr Shelokhonov | ... | Kapitonich (as Pyotr Sholokhov) | |
| Niall Buggy | ... | Doctor |
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Rated PG-13 for mature thematic elements and some sensuality/nudity.
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108 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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UK:12 (video rating) | UK:15 (original rating) | Argentina:13 | Germany:12 | Iceland:L | Peru:14 | South Korea:15 | Spain:13 | USA:PG-13 | Singapore:PG
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Sean Bean was chosen by the director Bernard Rose to play Count Vronsky because Rose had seen him playing the role of Richard Sharpe in the Sharpe's series on British television - the director thought he looked natural in a period-military uniform more
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Continuity: In the scene where Vronsky is shown out of Karenin's house after Anna's near death, a Soviet-era lamppost is visible further down the street. more
Quotes:
Anna Karenina:
What are you doing here?
Vronsky:
You know that I have come to be where you are. I cannot help myself.
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Referenced in "Gossip Girl: It's a Wonderful Lie (#2.12)" (2008) more
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Piano Sonata No. 2 in B Flat Minor, op. 36 more
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I'm not sure how this movie slipped past me, as I try to stay on top of the period movies that come out. Nonetheless I caught it on one of the Encore channels last night, and I'm glad I did. Visually this movie is incredible! The cinematography could not have been much better, down to small details such as Levin "mowing" in the fields with the scythe in perfect rhythm with the workers.
As much as I like the film, however, I'm disappointed that Sophie Marceau's portrayal of Anna was not more passionate. On the whole I thought her performance was pretty good, but I agree with the comments above that she could have exhibited a much more involved and emotional presence in the face of a love that she could not resist. Ditto for Sean Bean, although he was somewhat better at it than Sophie. It's a situation where one fervently wishes that the actors were better than they were, because you know that it would have made the movie a "10." Both Bean and Marceau did provide some excellent glimpses into the souls of their characters, but only glimpses. One would wish for more intimate looks into their motivations and their respective desolations. I was not at all put off by accents of the actors. So Marceau has a mild French accent...French was the dominant language of the Russian court up to the Revolution, so it would not have been out of place at all.
The story of Levin and Kitty fares better, if only because of the stellar performance of Alfred Molina. Offhand I can't think of a more underrated actor (save perhaps Ron Perlman). Ms. Kirshner was fine as Kitty, although her journey from infatuation with Vronsky to love for Levin was given short shrift.
Overall I loved this movie, but I just wish it had been two marks better.