3/4/2024 0 Comments Anna Karenina instal![]() Sean Bean had me worried for a few seconds, with a mannered reading or two, but improved quickly as the film progressed. Sophie Marceau was perfectly believable as Anna, and some of her scenes sent chills down my spine, though my favourite performance of hers still has to be "Firelight". On the whole, the performances were good. Perhaps I'm just rambling, but somehow that connected. Vronsky speaks of Anna being trapped in her marriage as the Prince seeks to capture the Swan Queen. The use of "Swan Lake" at various points was also wonderful, and the interplay during the scene at the ballet held me mesmerised. I can think of no better love theme for a doomed romance like that of Anna and Vronsky, than the first movement of Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony. The music, I can probably cite as one of the main reasons I loved this film. Then, I recognised Bernard Rose as the director of "Immortal Beloved", a film I had enjoyed some months before, mostly due to a magnificent performance by Gary Oldman, some of the most glorious music caught on film. I admire her immensely as an actress, having seen her in several films, both French and English. This film first caught my eye because of Sophie Marceau. And I am usually the first one to complain about what is wrong with a remake in comparison to the old version. This version, however, captured me from the start. That is all well and good, but what feature-length film *can* capture the entire scope of a novel the size of "Anna Karenina"? I watched the older version with Greta Garbo and-though I cannot imagine why-it never truly caught my attention. Many criticised this film because it did not follow the book, or omitted one thing or another. Now, perhaps I'm out of my element writing a review for "Anna Karenina" without having read the book, but I shall do so regardless.
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