Anna Karenina (1997)
Directed by Bernard Rose
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
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British director Joe Wright has had considerable success with adaptations of Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice) and Ian McEwan (Atonement), so he's well-prepared to take on Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy's timeless Anna Karenina.
Keira Knightley is hardly in the same league with those icons, but she makes a decorative centerpiece in this troubled remake by her mentor, director Joe Wright, who guided her in two previous films, Pride and Prejudice and Atonement.
The last time director Joe Wright (“Atonement,” “Hanna”) teamed with Keira Knightley on an adaptation of classic literature (“Pride and Prejudice”), she scored a Best Actress Oscar nod.
Director Joe Wright and his favorite star, Kiera Knightley (“Pride and Prejudice,” “Atonement”) have produced a ravishing, highly theatrical version of Leo Tolstoy’s classic “Anna Karenina.”
After all, I liked the 2005 version of "Pride and Prejudice" that just so happened also to feature this film's star & director combo of Keira Knightley (in front of the lens) and Joe Wright (behind it).
Leo Tolstoy's novel is the subject of a lavish and ambitious new screen treatment from British director Joe Wright ("Pride and Prejudice," "Atonement"), a guy who's never erred on the side of caution.
Anna Karenina; The Kreutzer Sonata; best so far, ivans xtc, his Hollywood modernisation of The Death of Ivan Ilyich.