Anna Karenina
[2012. 129 min. Directed by Joe Wright. Starring Keira Knightly, Juda Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson.]
— Remember that feeling during the first half hour of “Moulin Rouge” when you realized you were watching something so different, so clever, so interwoven that you were fascinated and liking it? Well, I had the same feeling about “Anna Karenina” – interwoven, not a musical but unfolding with a rhythm all its own, an attention to details and set design that gave it a flow, a tight and clever script that allowed it to move from stage to the larger world and back again, and good actors too, but somehow it fell a little flat in the middle and I lost patience with nearly everyone and wondered if screenplay writer and director had just run out of steam or if we were supposed to accept a slower pace as things unraveled as befitting the unfolding storyline. By the end, it hooked me back again, regaining my interest, and I think it’s something worth seeing and marveling at its theatricality, but by breathing new life into an old story, I think the characters lost their motivations and, with it, my sympathy.
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