Anna Karenina: Vronsky's Story

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Joseph S Jul 3 Seeing this adaption of the tale told from Vronsky's point of view was very interesting. While I had to read the subtitles for the dialogue, I thought the acting was top flight. My only problem with it, and it is MY problem, is that I had trouble keeping straight who the minor characters were at times. Still, it is a beautifully filmed and excellently staged production, and fans of the book should find a lot to like here. (I saw it on Tubi) See more 04/11/2019 Very well done. I had just finished the book and then found there were so many film adaptations I didn't know where to start. I saw the 2012 version starring Keira Knightley and really did not care for it. Although she is stunning in it. This one attracted me because it was in Russian and made by Russians. It had way more heart and more time to tell the story. I liked how it was told by Vronsky and as he says you remember what you choose to remember. Based on that assumption I accepted the fact that they would not include the parallel story of Kitty and Levin. Also, the book had a lot of deep Russian thoughts and arguments among intellectuals, which I loved reading, but admittedly would have probably hated to view on the screen. I thought the acting was superb; the costumes and scenery and horses were top notch. Maybe with its modern retelling feminist themes seemed more apparent than in the book. When she's home alone and is obviously at a loss of what to do with herself, a modern viewer wants to yell go join a group or see a therapist. Jeez, lady. I don't think Mr Tolstoy would have had that in mind. She was so intelligent that she had negative criticism of the hospital plans with a algebraic formula. This wasn't in the book, but I think it showed how smart she was and how really her life was being wasted as a stay at home mistress. In modern Russia she would have been a physicist or engineer; but in her society and times she could only rage against the machine by having an illicit affair becoming so unhappy at the consequences. The end of course is very sad. We know she died by throwing herself against the most popular machine of her times: the train, however, in the series that is not shown (thank god) and Vronsky muses that she may still be alive and she definitely is still alive in his mind and that of all who knew her. And she is alive in the many movies based on her story. See more Read all reviews

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