
In 1874, in the Imperial Russia, the aristocratic Anna Karenina travels from Saint Petersburg to Moscow to save the marriage of her brother Prince Oblonsky, who had had a love affair with his housemaid. Anna Karenina has a cold marriage with her husband, Count Alexei Karenin, and they have a son. Anna meets the cavalry officer Count Vronsky at the train station and they feel attracted by each other. Soon she learns that Vronsky will propose to Kitty, who is the younger sister... (Full plot summary below)
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In 1874, in the Imperial Russia, the aristocratic Anna Karenina travels from Saint Petersburg to Moscow to save the marriage of her brother Prince Oblonsky, who had had a love affair with his housemaid. Anna Karenina has a cold marriage with her husband, Count Alexei Karenin, and they have a son. Anna meets the cavalry officer Count Vronsky at the train station and they feel attracted by each other. Soon she learns that Vronsky will propose to Kitty, who is the younger sister of her sister-in-law Dolly. Anna satisfactorily resolves the infidelity case of her brother and Kitty invites her to stay for the ball. However, Anna Karenina and Vronsky dance in the ball, calling the attention of the conservative society. Soon they have a love affair that will lead Anna Karenina to a tragic fate.
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| Washington PostAnn HornadayWhile Wright's self-conscious theatricality and dollhouse aesthetic conjure comparisons to Baz Luhrmann and Wes Anderson, he outstrips both those filmmakers in moral seriousness and maturity. |
| ViewLondonMatthew TurnerA thoroughly engaging, powerfully emotional period drama with a superb script and a terrific central performance from Keira Knightley. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenThere's no getting around the fact that Johnson is disastrous. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeA glorious feast of a movie that is unlike anything else you will see this year. |
| Salt Lake TribuneSean P. MeansIt breathes new life into Tolstoy's characters and reignites the passion that generations of readers have felt for them. |
| VarietyLeslie FelperinSetting most of the action in a mocked-up theater emphasizes the performance aspects of the characters' behavior, a strategy enhanced by lead thesp Keira Knightley's willingness to let her neurotic Anna appear less sympathetic than in previous incarnations. |
| Flick FilosopherMaryAnn JohansonThere is no pretense that Wright is giving us a realistic depiction of late-19th-century Russia... he's underscoring the artificiality of cinema itself. That will be uncomfortable to some... |
| Cinema SightWesley LovellA whirlwind affair composed of dazzling set pieces and a driving narrative. |
| Boxoffice MagazineDavid EhrlichThe result is a masterpiece of moving pieces, a dizzying and obscenely beautiful film that boils down Tolstoy's text to its most basic elements by making literal the theater of high society. |
| Reel Talk OnlineCandice FrederickIt's far from a perfect film, but Anna Karenina should be praised for its attempt to reinvent the wheel of stuffy costume-clad Masterpiece Theater for the big screen. |