Anna goes into premature labour and sends for Vronsky, although she later says he could never be the man Karenin is. Vronsky begs her not to go, but he is unable to bring himself to explain to her why she cannot attend. She attends the opera with Princess Myagkaya, an outspoken socialite, but the society types shun her. Critics praised the cast, but commented on and criticised the heavily stylised adaptation, and were less enthusiastic with Wright's preference for style over substance and his idea of setting most of the action on a theatre stage. [25] The Daily Mirror singled out Knightley as "excellent" and lauded Wright for "offer[ing] a fresh vision of the Tolstoy classic", concluding the picture to be "with its beautiful cinematography and costumes... a real success". During the time period, a divorce in Russia could only be requested by the innocent party in an affair and required either that the guilty party confessed—which would ruin Anna's position in society and bar her from remarrying in the Orthodox Church—or that the guilty party be discovered in the act of adultery. The suburban railway station of Obiralovka, where one of the characters commits suicide, is now known as the town of Zheleznodorozhny, Moscow Oblast. A handful of other translators, including Constance Garnett and Rosemary Edmonds, both non-Russians, prefer the first. [22] Ian Freer of Empire awarded the film four stars out of five and was effervescent in his praise for Wright and the final result: he said "Anna Karenina militantly doesn't want to be just another costume drama; it attacks the heavyweight concerns of Russian literature (hypocrisy, jealousy, faith, fidelity, the pastoral vs. the urban, huge mustaches) with wit and verve; most exciting of all, it is filmmaking of the highest order, channeling every other art form from painting to ballet to puppetry while remaining completely cinematic". Meanwhile, Stiva's childhood friend, Konstantin Dmitrievich Levin ("Kostya"), arrives in Moscow with the aim of proposing to Dolly's youngest sister, Princess Katerina Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya ("Kitty"). and smiling at the scene where Bridget brutally dumps Daniel Cleaver in the office and Aretha Franklin's 'Respect' blares out. He lauded the entire cast for their work yet concluded that "this is really its director's movie". [17] Filming began in October 2011. Vronsky, however, is infatuated with Anna, and donates two hundred roubles to the dead man's family, which impresses her. A lightning storm occurs at Levin's estate while his wife and newborn son are outdoors and, in his fear for their safety, Levin realizes that he does indeed love his son as much as he loves Kitty. Sergei Ivanovich's (Levin's brother) latest book is ignored by readers and critics and he participates in the Russian commitment to Pan-Slavism. He takes up painting and makes an attempt to patronize an émigré Russian artist of genius. Adapt fast amid constant change. Dolly tells her Kitty is in Moscow to give birth. She then returns to Moscow. It earned four nominations at the 85th Academy Awards and six nominations at the 66th British Academy Film Awards, winning Jacqueline Durran both prizes for Best Costume Design. She has become dependent on it. He is also going to be in the new Transformers film, The Last King. This emended Garnett should probably be a reader's first choice. However, at the end of the story, Levin arrives at the conclusion that despite his newly accepted beliefs, he is human and will go on making mistakes. The novel has been adapted into various media including theatre, opera, film, television, ballet, figure skating, and radio drama. Anna is unable to hide her distress during the accident. A group of Russian volunteers, including the suicidal Vronsky, depart from Russia to fight in the Orthodox Serbian revolt that has broken out against the Turks, more broadly identified as the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). Even though he speculated that "the film is going to divide people enormously", he concluded it was one to "cherish despite its flaws". Stiva informs the household that his married sister, Anna Arkadyevna Karenina, is coming to visit from Saint Petersburg in a bid to calm the situation. The novel is divided into eight parts. Although she initially tries to reject him, she eventually succumbs to his attentions and begins an affair. Anna returns to her husband, Count Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin, a senior government official, and her son, Seryozha, in St. Petersburg. Despite Vronsky's reassurances, she grows increasingly possessive and paranoid about his imagined infidelity, fearing her own loss of control. Anna (Marceau) is a wife and mother who has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Bean). Anna, shaken by her emotional and physical response to Vronsky, returns at once to St. Petersburg. Vladimir Nabokov explains: "In Russian, a surname ending in a consonant acquires a final 'a' (except for the cases of such names that cannot be declined and except adjectives like OblonskAYA) when designating a woman. Kitty, who comes to visit Dolly and Anna, is just eighteen. Kitty realizes that Vronsky has fallen in love with Anna and has no intention of marrying her, despite his overt flirtations. Karenin changes his plans after hearing that Anna is dying after the difficult birth of her daughter, Annie. [6], Anna Karenina is commonly thought to explore the themes of hypocrisy, jealousy, faith, fidelity, family, marriage, society, progress, carnal desire and passion, and the agrarian connection to land in contrast to the lifestyles of the city. On Edmonds's version he states: "her version has no notes at all and all too frequently errs in the direction of making Tolstoy's 'robust awkwardness' conform to the translator's notion of good English style. She is also unable to keep pace with Anna's fashionable dresses or Vronsky's extravagant spending on a hospital he is building. Levin and Kitty return to his estate, where a sickly Nikolai and Masha live in a storeroom. Her increasing bitterness, boredom, and jealousy cause the couple to argue. By turning down the role, she was able to take the lead roles in Byzantium and The Host. He wrestles with the idea of falseness, wondering how he should go about ridding himself of it, and criticising what he feels is falseness in others. Yet she lacks a true sensitivity for the language ... [leading] to [her] missing many a subtlety." Bill Skarsgård makes a brief appearance as Makhotin, while Shirley Henderson appears near the end of the film as an outraged theatre patron. Ivanov's and Karenin's wives are Mrs Ivanov and Mrs Karenin in Britain and the US—not 'Mrs Ivanova' or 'Mrs Karenina'."[1]. Based on the novel by Tolstoy. Produced by Working Title Films in association with StudioCanal, the film premiered at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival. Bridget Jones's Diary is the classic rom-com we've devoured over and over and over again. A parallel story within the novel is that of Konstantin Levin, a wealthy country landowner who wants to marry Kitty, sister to Dolly and sister-in-law to Anna's brother Stepan Oblonsky. Vronsky makes an emotional request to Dolly, asking her to convince Anna to divorce Karenin so that the two might marry and live normally. A specialist advises that Kitty should go abroad to a health spa to recover. As Anna recovers, she finds that she cannot bear living with Karenin despite his forgiveness and his attachment to Annie. Anna refuses him, although she is deeply affected by his attentions to her. [6][9] Wright shot most of his film on a single soundstage, representing a dilapidated theatre, at Shepperton Studios outside London. Vronsky and Anna soon begin to stir gossip. [23], In The Observer, Jason Solomons also called Knightley "superb", and declared that the film "works beautifully...[it is] elegant and exciting [and] ...incredibly cinematic". Karenin returns, believing Anna is dying and forgives her. Karenin is also present at the races and remarks to Anna that her behaviour is improper. Anna becomes upset when Princess Sorokina gives Vronsky a ride, as she believes Countess Vronskaya wants Vronsky to marry her. Gessen found Schwartz's translation to be formally closer to the original Russian, but often weighed down with details as a result; Bartlett's translation, like Pevear and Volokhonsky's, was rendered in more idiomatic English and more readable. Stiva gets the post he desired so much, and Karenin takes custody of Vronsky and Anna's baby, Annie. Anna survives and decides to stay with her husband. He realizes that one must decide for oneself what is acceptable concerning one's own faith and beliefs. The galleys of Anna Karenina for the April issue of Russkij Vestnik now lie on my table, and I really don't have the heart to correct them. Kitty and her mother travel to a German spa to recover from her ill health. Vronsky continues to pursue Anna. Anna Karénina (1877) cuenta las historias paralelas de una mujer atrapada en las convenciones sociales y un terrateniente filósofo, Liovin, que intenta mejorar las vidas de sus siervos (apellido derivado del nombre Liova, el diminutivo de Lev; así es como llamaba en privado a Tolstói su esposa Sofía Behrs). Ronan, stated that her reasoning behind turning down the role of Kitty was the film's long production schedule. Forgive me," and jumps under a train. He threatens to take away Seryozha if she persists in her affair with Vronsky. Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Domhnall Gleeson, and Alicia Vikander appear in key supporting roles. The first instance eschews the Russian practice of employing gender-specific forms of surnames, instead using the masculine form for all characters. When she hears that Vronsky is about to leave for a military posting in Tashkent, she becomes desperate. Commenting on the revision of Constance Garnett's 1901 translation she says: "The revision (1965) ... by Kent & Berberova (the latter no mean stylist herself) succeeds in 'correcting errors ... tightening the prose, converting Briticisms, and casting light on areas Mrs Garnett did not explore'. The novel details Levin's difficulties managing his estate, his eventual marriage, and his struggle to accept the Christian faith, until the birth of his first child. Vronsky, a keen horseman, takes part in a steeplechase event, during which he rides his mare Frou-Frou too hard—his irresponsibility causing him to fall and break the horse's back. "[20] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 63 out of 100, based on 41 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". However, Vronsky, embarrassed by Karenin's magnanimity, unsuccessfully attempts suicide by shooting himself. Marian Schwartz... has produced what is probably the least smooth-talking and most contradictory Tolstoy yet." Anna Karenina is a 2012 historical romantic drama film directed by Joe Wright. In 2019, she joined the cast of Amazon's Carnival Row. Writing in the year 2000, academic Zoja Pavlovskis-Petit compared the different translations of Anna Karenina on the market. He develops ideas relating to agriculture, and the unique relationship between the agricultural labourer and his native land and culture. They cannot socialize with Russians of their own class and find it difficult to amuse themselves. 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The story takes place against the backdrop of the liberal reforms initiated by Emperor Alexander II of Russia and the rapid societal transformations that followed. [7][13][14] Saoirse Ronan and Andrea Riseborough were initially cast in the film, but dropped out and were replaced by Alicia Vikander and Ruth Wilson, respectively. Anna's confusion and anger overcome her and, in conscious symmetry with the railway worker's death on her first meeting with Vronsky, from ground level at the end of a railway platform, she throws herself with fatal intent between the wagon wheelsets of the freight train to be in passage by her. Levin says he loves Stiva's sister-in-law, Princess Kitty, and Stiva encourages him to propose. Anna is devastated. Nikolai suggests Levin marry a peasant. When the marriage starts to improve, Levin learns that his brother, Nikolai, is dying of consumption. When Anna and Vronsky continue seeing each other, Karenin consults with a lawyer about obtaining a divorce. Dolly speaks to Kitty and understands she is suffering because of Vronsky and Levin, whom she cares for and had hurt in vain. [20], This article is about the novel by Tolstoy. Levin and Kitty marry and start their new life on his country estate. The novel has been adapted into various media including opera, film, television, ballet, and radio drama. On Carmichael's version she comments: "this is a—rather breezily—readable translation ... but there are errors and misunderstandings, as well as clumsiness." However, Vronsky cannot see that his own art lacks talent and passion, and that his conversation about art is extremely pretentious. The clairvoyant apparently had a vision in his sleep during Stiva's visit and gives Karenin a cryptic message that he interprets in a way such that he must decline the request for divorce. He becomes extremely jealous when one of the visitors, Veslovsky, flirts openly with the pregnant Kitty. Levin focuses on country life and contemplates marrying a worker's daughter. "[9], Levin is often considered a semi-autobiographical portrayal of Tolstoy's own beliefs, struggles, and life events. While visiting Moscow for Kitty's confinement, Levin quickly gets used to the city's fast-paced, expensive and frivolous society life. These contemporary developments are hotly debated by the characters in the novel.[11]. "[17], McLean's recommendations are the Kent–Berberova revision of Garnett's translation and the Pevear and Volokhonsky version. Veslovsky immediately goes to stay with Anna and Vronsky at their nearby estate. Karenin asks her to break it off to avoid further gossip, believing that their marriage will be preserved. He accompanies Stiva to a gentleman's club, where the two meet Vronsky. Further crew members include cinematographer Seamus McGarvey, editor Melanie Ann Oliver, and choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.[6]. [29] Richard Brody of The New Yorker criticized Wright for diverging from Tolstoy, without adding anything beyond superficialities in return: "Wright, with flat and flavorless images of an utterly impersonal banality, takes Tolstoy's plot and translates it into a cinematic language that's the equivalent of, say, Danielle Steel, simultaneously simplistic and overdone. Anna Karenina consists of more than the story of Anna Karenina, a married socialite, and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky, though their relationship is a very strong component of the plot. Dolly, her mother the Princess Scherbatskaya, and Dolly's children spend the summer with Levin and Kitty. Influenced by Varenka, Kitty becomes extremely pious, but becomes disillusioned by her father's criticism when she learns Madame Stahl is faking her illness. Levin and Kitty, having reunited, announce their love and marry. 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