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Anna Karenina
The movie follows young and beautiful married Anna who meets the handsome Count Vronsky, with whom she falls in love. After he joins her in Saint Petersburg, they have a passionate love affair, but their happiness is eventually undermined by social pressures.
14 May 1962, Rome, Lazio, Italy
4 May 1959, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
1951, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
7 December 1957, Russia
24 May 1953, London, England, UK
3 June 1942
19 May 1939, London, England, UK
July 26, 2002
You're better off reading the Cliff's Notes.January 01, 2000
This version manages to be both the most pretentious and anaemic yet.January 01, 2000
Bloodless and shallow adaptation.January 01, 2000
Like its opening, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is half-successful.January 01, 2000
A copy of the paperback book should cost about as much as a movie ticket, and will provide a more lasting and worthwhile investment.January 01, 2000
When [Anna and Vronsky] first lay eyes on each other at the train station in St. Petersburg, the only steam between them comes from the engine.January 01, 2000
This sleek, Cliffs Notes version of a masterpiece is ... glossy and picture perfect on the surface and hollow at the core.January 01, 2000
[Rose's] screenplay is a ragbag, nothing like a tragedy in which the nemesis is Time. And his casting!January 01, 2000
Marceau and Bean have no chemistry, which is essential to a film like this.January 01, 2000
In Sophie Marceau ... [Rose] has a fine young Anna.February 21, 2001
Only die-hard romantics are likely not to come away disappointed.January 01, 2000
Doesn't build strong relationships between the characters, relying instead on overheated words and performances to generate false intensity.