Film review: Anna Karenina

This beautiful movie is about love and its many forms. It’s a rich, elegant, visual feast where the actors dance around the sets, and each other. It’s viewed like a play in a theatre that breaks out and runs free in the real world; many of the scenes take place in an actual theatre they built specifically for this movie.

It’s about a rich, socialite woman named Anna who is married to a very successful politician and has a lovely little boy, but she falls desperately in love with a soldier named Vronsky. He says he can’t live without her and they decide to run away and be happy with each other. However, adultery has a price, and some love doesn’t last forever.

Keira really brings Anna to life, and Aaron Johnson (Vronsky) is much more attractive in this movie than he was in Kick-Ass. It’s a period piece, so the costumes were designed to mix 1950s couture with an 1870s silhouette and body shape, resulting in gorgeous dresses. The men’s uniforms were designed from looking at period style Russian uniforms. Also, I saw a few familiar faces like people from Downton Abbey, Moaning Myrtle perhaps, and Anna's brother in this movie is the man who plays Mr. Darcy opposite Keira in Pride and Prejudice!

I really loved this film, and I think I will have to go and buy it for myself.