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Genre
Drama
Running time
130 min
Director
Joe Wright
Screen writer
Tom Stoppard
Actors
Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson , Kelly Macdonald, Olivia Williams, Emily Watson, Michelle Dockery, Matthew Mcfadyen
OFLC rating
MA 15+
Year
2012
Language
English
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Synopsis

Set in late-19th-century Russia high-society, the aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.

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Slave to love

Keira Knightley in Anna Karenina.

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

Sandra Hall Trivia triumphs over tragedy in a makeover of Tolstoy's classic novel Anna Karenina.

Reader reviews 27

Anna Karenina review

Main tragedy in this Anna is that it was made at all

Keira Knightley in <i>Anna Karenina</i>.

Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars

Jake Wilson I have to wonder what the late Chilean director Raul Ruiz would have made of this new British version of Anna Karenina, which has something of the baroquely zany approach Ruiz brought to his own 'prestige' literary adaptations of the likes of Dante and Proust.

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27 reviews so far

  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars

    I don't think the chin thing is deliberate. She just has a massive chin.

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    Don't get it
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    Aus
    Date and time
    February 14, 2013, 11:12AM

  • Rating: 0.5 out of 5 stars

    Went to the Open Air Cinema last night and saw it. My God it's the worst film I've seen in years. At least she put me out of my misery in the end. Absolute drivel!!!!

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    M
    Location
    Sydney
    Date and time
    February 14, 2013, 11:18AM

  • Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars

    I saw this movie yesterday hoping that it would live up to the standard of Tolstoy's novel. I was bitterly disappointed. The stage play format of the movie was incredibly annoying and did not take the audience into the world of 18th century Russian high society. Although the dance sequence was very good. Other than that, the whole movie is a fail. The casting apart from Jude Law, Domhall Gleeson and Halliday Grainger, was wrong. Keira Knightley's portayal of Anna made me despise her rather than feel any sympathy and Aaron Taylor-Johnson simply doesn't have the chrisma of Vfonsky. The director tried too much and tried to be smart with the stage settings and stylised posing but forgot that the storyline was probably more important.

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    tatiana
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    February 14, 2013, 11:24AM

    • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

      The novel is not set in the 18th century. Read the book. You will better understand the film.

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      Francis Allen
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      February 14, 2013, 1:13PM

  • Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars

    Give me Greta Garbo any day

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    Betty Crocker
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    February 14, 2013, 11:29AM

  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars

    Lavish production but terribly disappointing. So artificial, and hard to believe the script was by Tom Stoppard. The major turnoff was Keira Knightley, who has now become so mannered she is unwatchable.

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    pietro
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    February 14, 2013, 11:31AM

  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

    It's great. ignore this ill-informed review.

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    bea
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    February 14, 2013, 11:54AM

    • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

      +1.

      I do not think Jake has read the novel.

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      Francis Allen
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      February 14, 2013, 1:14PM

    • Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars

      Francis Allen-

      "I do not think Jake has read the novel."

      That's irrelevant. A great film should be able to stand on its own. If you need to have read the novel in order to appreciate the film, and you don't know BTW whether or not he has in fact read the novel, then the film is lessened.

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      DS
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      February 14, 2013, 6:12PM

  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

    I just had a look at other reviews online and all were positive. For example " This "Anna Karenina" is an adaptation that finally does Tolstoy justice and yet fully uses the advantages of cinema with the advances of CGI. Lush, emotionally complex and visually stunning, this movie fuses literature, theater and cinema and achieves visual poetry.".

    Jake. Roger Ebert you're not.

    Commenter
    Francis Allen
    Location
    Sydney
    Date and time
    February 14, 2013, 11:56AM

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