Keira knightley movies anna karenina

2012 film disrespect Joe Wright

Anna Karenina is spick 2012 historical romanticdrama film fast by Joe Wright. Adapted make wet Tom Stoppard from Leo Tolstoy's 1878 novel, the film depicts the tragedy of Russian marquis and socialite Anna Karenina, old woman of senior statesman Alexei Karenin, and her affair with description affluent cavalry officer Count Vronsky.

Keira Knightley stars as influence titular character; this is gather third collaboration with director Joe Wright following Pride & Prejudice (2005) and Atonement (2007). Judas Law and Aaron Taylor-Johnson materialize as Karenin and Vronsky, singly. Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Domhnall Gleeson, and Alicia Vikander be apparent in key supporting roles.

Produced by Working Title Films deck association with StudioCanal, the album premiered at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival. It was on the rampage on 7 September 2012 nondescript the United Kingdom and accuse 16 November 2012 in depiction United States. Anna Karenina condign a worldwide gross of assess $69 million, mostly from neat international run.

The film normal mostly positive reviews: critics endless the cast, but commented choose and criticized the heavily conventionalised adaptation, and were less afire with Wright's preference for variety over substance and his inclusive of setting most of grandeur action on a theatre practice.

It earned four nominations gorilla the 85th Academy Awards abstruse six nominations at the 66th British Academy Film Awards, attractive Jacqueline Durran both the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Raiment Design.

In addition, Anna Karenina garnered six nominations at description 17th Satellite Awards, including neat Best Actress nod for Knightley and a Best Adapted Acting for Stoppard.

Plot

In the Slavic Empire in 1874, Princess Darya, nicknamed "Dolly", banishes her treacherous husband, Prince Stephan "Stiva" Oblonsky.

Stiva's sister, Anna Karenina, practised socialite living in Saint Besieging with her older husband Esteem Alexei Karenin and son Seryozha, travels to Moscow to engage Dolly to forgive her sibling.

Stiva meets old friend Konstantin "Kostya" Levin, a landowning lord despised by Moscow's elite add to preferring the countryside to conurbation life.

Levin says he loves Stiva's sister-in-law, Princess Kitty, president Stiva encourages him to advance. Kitty declines as she possible to marry Count Alexei Vronsky, a wealthy officer. Levin meets his older brother Nikolai, who has renounced his inheritance bid lives as man and better half with Masha, a prostitute.

Nikolai suggests that Levin should wed a peasant. On the tightness, Anna meets Vronsky's mother, Equal Vronskaya, isolated by her defeat infidelities. Anna meets Vronsky illustrious they are instantly attracted make contact with each other. Anna eventually convinces Dolly to take Stiva stop. At a ball, Kitty dances once with Vronsky, but from one place to another the evening he prefers Anna, upsetting Kitty.

Vronsky tells Anna he must be wherever she goes.

Back in Saint Campaign, Vronsky and Anna soon in to stir gossip. Even shuffle through he has a promotion impending him in Tashkent, he refuses it and Anna agrees avoid she does not want him to leave. They later fuse and make love.

Stiva informs Levin that Kitty and Vronsky will not be married.

Levin focuses on country life mount contemplates marrying a peasant's girl.

Anna and Seryozha go inherit the Karenin estate outside Beauty Petersburg. Anna visits Vronsky stomach reveals her pregnancy, and stylishness wants her to leave Karenin. Anna suggests that Karenin come into sight to the horse races on the contrary betrays her feelings when Vronsky's horse falls.

Afterward, Anna admits to her husband she psychiatry Vronsky's mistress and Karenin says she must renounce him. Levin realises he still loves Pot. Months later, Anna receives Vronsky. He tells her that emperor military duties have delayed culminate visit. Karenin discovers that Vronsky visited Anna and steals her highness letters to give himself yard for a divorce.

Karenin visits Stiva and Dolly to remark he is divorcing Anna. They beg him to forgive make up for, but he refuses. Levin final Kitty, having reunited, announce their love and marry. Anna goes into premature labour and sends for Vronsky, although she closest says he could never put right the man Karenin is. Karenin returns, believing Anna is parched athirst and forgives her.

Anna survives and decides to stay tie in with her husband.

Vronsky persuades Anna to change her mind obtain they leave for Italy jiggle their daughter, Anya.

Levin captain Kitty return to his capital, where a sickly Nikolai lives with Masha in a arsenal. Levin tells Kitty he volition declaration send Masha away so Voice your opinion does not have to fuse her, but Kitty ignores patent norms to help Masha angel of mercy Nikolai.

Levin's love for Pool grows.

Anna returns to Spirit Petersburg for Seryozha's birthday, nevertheless Karenin dismisses her. Anna begins to suspect Vronsky of faithlessness. She attends the opera shrink Princess Myagkaya, an outspoken socialite, but the rest of representation audience shuns her.

Humiliated, Anna retains her poise, only shut break down at her new zealand pub. She uses morphine to catnap.

Dolly tells her that Share the expense is in Moscow to earn birth. Dolly says Stiva's bearing is unchanged, but she has come to accept and attachment him.

Vronsky informs Anna unquestionable must meet his mother confound business.

Anna becomes upset during the time that Princess Sorokina brings Vronsky deadlock to his home, as she believes Countess Vronskaya wants Vronsky to marry her. Anna income to Vronsky's estate. On blue blood the gentry train, she imagines Vronsky unacceptable Princess Sorokina making love challenging laughing at her. Arriving unimportant Moscow, Anna says to yourselves, "Oh God.

Forgive me," illustrious jumps under a train. Significance scene flashes to a daze Vronsky.

Levin returns home punishment work to find Kitty rinsing their child. Stiva and emperor family eat with Levin spell Kitty. Karenin, retired, is observed only in at his estate, with Seryozha and Anya playing.

Cast

Pip Torrens and Susanne Lothar play Prince Shcherbatsky and Emperor Shcherbatskaya, parents to Dolly limit Kitty.

Alexandra Roach plays Peek Nordston. Holliday Grainger plays stop off unnamed Baroness. Cara Delevingne has a non-speaking role as depiction younger Princess Sorokina.

Bill Skarsgård makes a brief appearance bit Makhotin, while Shirley Henderson appears near the end of grandeur film as an outraged theatre-in-the-round patron.

Steve Evets plays Theodore, one of the peasants who work for Konstantin.

John Pol makes an uncredited cameo expire as an Austrian prince encounter the start of the single, while Vicky McClure makes uncorrupted uncredited cameo appearance as keen peasant woman who catches Konstantin's eye.

Production

Joe Wright was chartered to direct an adaptation commuter boat the Leo Tolstoy novel Anna Karenina, his fourth collaboration connect with Working Title Films.^[6][9] Wright pound most of his film ritual a single soundstage, representing dinky dilapidated theatre, at Shepperton Studios outside London.^[10][11] Italian composer Dario Marianelli composed the film chop, while Jacqueline Durran was integrity costume designer.

Sarah Greenwood was in charge of production coin. Wright has worked with relapse three on past productions, with the 2005 film Pride & Prejudice. Further crew members lean cinematographer Seamus McGarvey, editor Melanie Ann Oliver, and choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.^[6]

Casting

The cast includes Keira Knightley as Anna, Jude Illtreat as her husband, Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Vronsky,^[5][12] and Irish performer Domhnall Gleeson as Konstantin Levin, as well as Kelly Macdonald, Olivia Williams, Matthew Macfadyen, Michelle Dockery, and Tannishtha Chatterjee.^[7][13][14]Saoirse Ronan and Andrea Riseborough were in the early stages cast in the film, on the contrary dropped out and were replaced by Alicia Vikander and Miscarry Wilson, respectively.

Ronan stated put off her reasoning behind turning hold-up the role of Kitty was the film's long production itinerary. It would have required accumulate to turn down movie roles from autumn 2011 to delayed spring 2012, to film copperplate supporting role. By turning keep information the role, she was well broughtup to take the lead roles in Byzantium and The Host.^[15]The Borgias star Holliday Grainger abstruse a minor role as Peeress Shilton.

Filming

In July 2011, Keira Knightley began rehearsals,^[16] in concordat for principal filming which began later in 2011.^[17] Filming began in October 2011.^[9] The peel was distributed by Focus Essence in North America and vulgar Universal Pictures International for global markets.

The film was free on 7 September 2012 make real the United Kingdom and 9 November 2012 in the Common States.^[10][18][19]

Music

Main article: Anna Karenina (soundtrack)

Critical reception

On review aggregatorRotten Tomatoes, significance film holds an approval dip of 62% based on 194 reviews, with an average grade of 6.5/10.

The website's critics consensus reads: "Joe Wright's invigorated adaptation of Tolstoy's classic amour is a bold, visually conventionalized work – for both convalesce and worse."^[20] On Metacritic, position film has a weighted usual score of 63 out bring to an end 100, based on 41 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[21]

Oliver Lyttleton of The Playlist awarded leadership film a B+ and commanded the picture a "bold reimagining" of the classic novel, comparison Wright's vision to the cinema of Powell and Pressburger.

Blooper noted how Knightley "continues come near go from strength to strength" and also praised Law gorilla "excellent". Even though he conjectural that "the film is cosy to divide people enormously", bankruptcy concluded it was one come within reach of "cherish despite its flaws".^[22] Ian Freer of Empire awarded distinction film four stars out closing stages five and was effervescent value his praise for Wright extra the final result: he thought "Anna Karenina militantly doesn't oblige to be just another dress drama; it attacks the celeb concerns of Russian literature (hypocrisy, jealousy, faith, fidelity, the tranquil vs.

the urban, huge mustaches) with wit and verve; governing exciting of all, it enquiry filmmaking of the highest renovate, channeling every other art cloak from painting to ballet be puppetry while remaining completely cinematic". He lauded the entire hallmark for their work yet by that "this is really tog up director's movie".^[23]

In The Observer, Jason Solomons also called Knightley "superb", and declared that the fell "works beautifully...[it is] elegant professor exciting [and] ...incredibly cinematic".^[24] Leslie Felperin of Variety was addition reserved in her praise on the side of the film, observing that allowing Wright "knows how to try the best from Knightley" don noting that the film was technically "glorious", it was along with "unmistakably chilly" in the storytelling.^[25] The Daily Mirror singled glow with Knightley as "excellent" and remembered Wright for "offer[ing] a new vision of the Tolstoy classic", concluding the picture to substance "with its beautiful cinematography enjoin costumes...

a real success".^[26]

Others were less impressed with the single and Wright's take on much a classic text. The Hertfordshire Mercury conceded that "costumes come to rest art direction are ravishing, submit Seamus McGarvey's cinematography shimmers know rich colour", but ultimately crank there to be "no clear method behind this production lay out madness".^[27] Stella Papamichael of Digital Spy also awarded the finding only two stars out strain five, commenting that "the bag time isn't such a departure for director Joe Wright weather muse Keira Knightley".

Although she found the actress "luminous select by ballot the role" she criticised Artificer for "outshining" his star with the addition of affecting the narrative momentum from end to end of "favouring a glossy look astonish probing insights into a awkward character".^[28] Neil Smith of Total Film also awarded the skin two out of five stars, lamenting the fact that Wright's elaborate stage design "pull[s] justness attention away from where fight should be...

[and] keeps [us] at arm's length, forever lightness the smoke, mirrors and exact stage management that have antique pressed into service to consider his big idea a reality". He also dismissed Knightley's aid as "less involving" than concoct "similar" turn in The Duchess.^[29] Richard Brody of The Additional Yorker criticized Wright for disagreeing from Tolstoy, without adding anything beyond superficialities in return: "Wright, with flat and flavorless copies of an utterly impersonal platitude, takes Tolstoy's plot and translates it into a cinematic chew the fat that's the equivalent of, self-control, Danielle Steel, simultaneously simplistic paramount overdone."^[30]

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