![]() ![]() This Anna takes Vronsky just because she can, and then ultimately regrets it. All her mannerisms that I generally find annoying- the schoolgirl smirking and rampant nymphomania- actually work for this role. She goes for the unsympathetic approach and it works. ![]() She has the sense to restrain herself a little so that the many other elements of the novel shine through. Keira Knightley's version of Anna is not nearly as bad as you would think. Therefore I don't want to condemn the film outright because that would overshadow the things that it does get right. Tolstoy did not write vague types: he wrote fully-fleshed characters, and Tom Stoppard's screenplay acknowledged Tolstoy's style. As readers of the novel would know, there is much more to it than Anna's affair. Even without all the metatheatrical trappings, it still took an interesting and valid approach to the novel, proving that the novel could be adapted until infinity and it would still be fresh each time. As a whole adaptation, this version falls somewhere in the middle. I adore the novel, so I will be discussing Joe Wright's take on it and where it ranks amongst other adaptations but I will of course look at its merits as a film aside from the novel. ![]()
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