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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790731612 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 0790731614 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: August 25, 1998 Running Time: 108 minutes Sales Rank: 12575 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: April 04, 1997
Amazon.com: Sophie Marceau plays the title character in this 1997 version of Tolstoy's classic, set in Imperial Russia. Bernard Rose (Paperhouse) directs, but his accent is on sumptuousness instead of performance, and the result is that much of what happens--especially Anna's affair with Vronsky (Sean Bean)--is opaque and unbelievable. (Bean in particular is badly suited to his part.) A redeeming feature is Alfred Molina's role as the narrator, but he alone can't prop up Rose's façade of grand passion. --Tom Keogh
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Rating: - A visual masterpiece
One of the most visualy stunning costume dramas I have ever seen! Every thing is so beautifu the actors, the costumes which deserved an oscar nomination, the authentic russian sets and a great score. Sophie Marceau is beautiful as Anna but lacks the acting ability to play such a complex character. Sean Bean as Vronsky and Sophie Marceau have great chemistry. The film has sparks of greatness but fails. Some scenes like the ball scence and Anna's death are beautifuly shot and succeed and most others just seem lukewarm. Levin story is cut to only to a few minutes they probably should have not included ... Read More
Rating: - Some splendid scenes, and yet...
I've seen the Greta Garbo version; the Nicola Pagett TV adaptation and the Helen McCrory TV adaptation. They all have good things about them. For one, you can't really go wrong with the story: a beautiful young woman, married to an older man for convenience, falls desperately in love for the first time with a young officer, and he with her.
Onto this version... The chemistry between Sean Bean and Sophie Marceau is there, and they both give excellent performances. James Fox also makes an excellent, not totally unsympathic Karenin (thankfully miles above Basil Rathbone's stone cold performance ... Read More
Rating: - Sophie Marceau Spoiled It
Sorry, I just couldn't get into this version of the movie. I began watching it on TV this evening. I've read the book, which is one of the most brilliant classics ever written in my opinion. I also saw a TV series several years ago starring Nicola Paget. This series, I thought, made a pretty good attempt at being faithful to the book, and Nicola Paget portrayed the beautiful, troubled Anna in a most believable way.
Sophie Marceau, however, was too far removed from what I perceived Anna must have looked and acted like. Marceau seemed more like an ordinary present day college girl caught in a time ... Read More
Rating: - cinq étoiles
I am shocked how many people didn't like the movie. I absolutely loved it. Anyone who read the book knows that you cannot make a 2-hour movie from 969-page book without leaving many details out. It is not supposed to be a transcript of the book! I thought everything was done excellently, including the chosen cast and the acting. Perhaps being European I don't need melodramatic scenes of screaming, nudity, explicit love scenes and spilled blood - as Hollywood movies are so "good" at - to enjoy my movies. People who wrote the reviews here expected bloody ending, how sad. The movie was done with such a class, so tastefully, ... Read More
Rating: - Interesting to read all these reviews
I just watched this movie on video, and was curious what others thought, so I checked out the reviews. What really stands out to me is how much each individual brings of him or herself to an experience.
You can review several things about the film--how true it was to the book, or, conversely, how entertaining it was on its own; how well-cast you thought the main characters were, and whether or not they had sexual chemistry; and what you thought of the production values and directorial choices such as having the main characters speak Russian to the servants and peasants. So, acknowledging that what appeals ... Read More
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