Anna Karenina (2012)
Anna Karenina is a British historical romance film directed by Joe Wright.The film depicts the tragedy of Russian aristocrat and socialite Anna Karenina, wife of senior statesman Alexei Karenin, and her affair with the affluent officer Count Vronsky.
August1985, London, England, UK
27 June 1955, Vancouver, Canada
15 December 1981, Barking, Essex, England, UK
9 September 1976, Waterford, Ireland
24 November 1965, Kincardine, Fife, Scotland, UK
12 August 1992, London, England, UK
3 October 1988, Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
1986, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
1999, England
26 March 1985, Teddington, Middlesex, England, UK
August 17, 2014
[Lack of] clarity is this slick adaptation's biggest fault.
November 30, 2012
It's a half-success -- a baldly conceptual response to the Leo Tolstoy novel, with a heavy theatrical framework placed around the narrative of girl meets boy, followed by girl meets train.
November 26, 2012
The metaphorical force of this conceit-insisting on the artifice of the social world that frowns on rapture-is not hard to grasp, but its frailty unsettles some of the actors.
November 05, 2013
The look is gorgeous, of course, but seldom has so much aestheticization served so much heartlessness.
October 05, 2016
At times, the theater-as-life concept creates too much emotional distance from the characters, but the actors give such human, sympathetic performances that even the biggest Anna fans will find themselves hoping for a happier ending.
June 14, 2013
So can we somehow make a bargain with the film world: no more Anna Kareninas? You're making idiots of yourselves.
November 30, 2012
In this adaptation, director Joe Wright, plus screenwriter Tom Stoppard, are determined to tame the untameable. And they do.
May 17, 2016
It makes for a wonderfully adventurous adaptation that is at times quite thrilling, but one which too often misses the mark.
March 22, 2013
The film does not do even minimal justice to the themes informing the tragedy.
November 29, 2012
The very picture of noble failure, it's a bright red heart without a beat.
April 27, 2013
Maybe Wright and Stoppard have not given us a great Anna Karenina. .. this movie is too derivative and flashy for that, but they have connected the romantic and philosophical poles...The heart wants what it wants, and will destroy itself to have it.
November 30, 2012
"Anna Karenina," lush as it is, fails to strike a fully human chord.
