Anna Karenina (2012)

Anna Karenina: Directed by Joe Wright. With Matthew Macfadyen, Eric MacLennan, Kelly Macdonald, Theo Morrissey. In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky.

“It took me about an hour to stop being irritated by the movieu0026#39;s self consciousness, to sort of enjoy it… but the damage was done.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAs viewers, we have no reason to believe in the love Anna finds. He is creepy and give us no inkling of why she might ruin her life for him.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eKiera isnu0026#39;t bad, just annoying, considering we have no empathy for her self indulgence. If her husband was worse, her love a lot nicer, and if we could feel electricity between them, it would be a different matter, but the fact is the movie is too busy being clever… it misses out on having a heart and soul.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe theatre gimmick got in the way, and seemed like a cheap way of having Moscow backdrops without actually traveling there.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e5/10”