There was a film in , with Garbo, who was 30 at the time, and Basil Rathbone as Karenin, when he was Is Anna Karenina hard to read?
Of all the Russian novels written during the 19th-century, Anna Karenina is perhaps the most taught in college literature courses. Even so, over the years it has grown in stature to nearly mythical proportions as one of the most challenging novels to read.
How long does it take to read Anna Karenina? Is Anna Karenina worth reading? It isn't a romance novel really. I heard once that of however many authors and literary critics interviewed or polled for a list, Anna Karenina was ranked as the 1 novel of all time.
Based on this endorsement I read it in university and absolutely fell in love with it. What is the first line of Anna Karenina? What happens in Anna Karenina? Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky. Anna still awaits a divorce.
Levin and Kitty move to Moscow to await the birth of their baby, and they are astonished at the expenses of city life. Levin makes a trip to the provinces to take part in important local elections, in which the vote brings a victory for the young liberals. One day, Stiva takes Levin to visit Anna, whom Levin has never met. Anna enchants Levin, but her success in pleasing Levin only fuels her resentment toward Vronsky. She grows paranoid that Vronsky no longer loves her. Meanwhile, Kitty enters labor and bears a son.
Levin is confused by the conflicting emotions he feels toward the infant. Stiva goes to St. Petersburg to seek a cushy job and to beg Karenin to grant Anna the divorce he once promised her.
Karenin, following the advice of a questionable French psychic, refuses. Anna picks a quarrel with Vronsky, accusing him of putting his mother before her and unfairly postponing plans to go to the country. Vronsky tries to be accommodating, but Anna remains angry. When Vronsky leaves on an errand, Anna is tormented. She sends him a telegram urgently calling him home, followed by a profusely apologetic note.
She resolves to meet Vronsky at the train station after his errand, and she rides to the station in a stupor. At the station, despairing and dazed by the crowds, Anna throws herself under a train and dies.
Nov 11, PM. Anna was 27 years old. She was married at 18 and in the movie she said to her husband that they are like 9 years together. Vronsky was 5 years younger than she was. Nov 23, AM. I think both Anna and Vronsky are of the same age and that may be one of the factors for their mutual attraction. Jan 04, AM. Anna has been married 8 years so must be 25 to Vronsky has had a fairly full career in service so is about the same.
Anna is older than Vronsky! Anna is 27 yeras old and Vronsky Jan 08, PM. Jan 09, AM. Been awhile since I read this, but does the text ever actually say that Anna is older than Vronsky?
It may seem that way to us because she has been married awhile and Vronsky is mostly free of responsibilities, but that is not a reflection of their actual ages.
I always assumed that Vronsky was both older, and possibly as old as in his 30s. I think when they first met Anna was in her late twenties and Vronsky is maybe around Jan 17, PM. Since Vronsky is an officer and his mother is trying to arrange a match for him, he can't be in his teens.
He comes to the party to formalize his wooing of Kitty who is in her late teens when he is entranced with Anna. So I feel that he is nearer Anna's age if not the same age. Feb 27, AM. Apr 20, AM. Erik wrote: "When I read it, I thought Anna was kiiiind of a cougar.
These three films all congratulate themselves for their realism, and the heroines of all three films spend a great deal of time slogging through mud. There is no mud in Anna Karenina ; in fact at least half of it is physically set inside a theatre, which was also the case in Shakespeare in Love. In both films, the intention is to transcend the melodramatic elements of each plot who loves who, who leaves who; who cheats and who remains faithful and focus instead on the miracle of artistic inspiration.
Shakespeare in Love asked how Romeo and Juliet , a play created in Elizabethan England, continues to speak to us across four centuries. Similarly, Anna Karenina asks how a novel written in Imperial Russia continues to break our hearts today. How to dramatize the imaginative alchemy that enables one mere mortal, a Shakespeare, a Tolstoy, to see so deeply into the human heart that all the trappings of a specific time and a specific place serve to illuminate the eternal rather than weigh it down in contextual mud?
Critical to the success of Anna Karenina are the costume design by Jacqueline Durran, the hair and make-up design by Ivana Primorac, the production design by Sarah Greenwood, and the set decoration by Katie Spencer.
Two women, Dixie Chassay and Jina Jay, also did the casting, and it is surely no accident that the huge ensemble contains many familiar female faces in minor roles for example, Michelle Dockery, Shirley Henderson, and Emily Watson , whereas most of the men in supporting roles are unrecognizable.
And the casting is reinforced by the costumes, with women arrayed in fabulous feathers and gowns and hats and jewels of every hue, whereas the men mostly wear black and grey sometimes enlivened by a red sash. The sole exceptions are the two male leads: Vronsky wears a blue tunic that emphasizes his soulful eyes, and Levin wears a brown tunic when working side-by-side on the land with his serfs. Film is a collaborative art and in praising the women who worked so diligently on Anna Karenina , I do not mean to slight any of the men.
Cinematographer Seamus McGarvey, composer Dario Marianelli, and choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui are all working at the top of their game, but the one person I single out for highest praise is Melanie Oliver, the editor who assembled all the pieces. All the talents of the entire team—actors and artisans—come together in the magnificent ball that ends Act One.
And for this brilliant sequence alone, Oliver has earned her Oscar nomination. And if she is not nominated, that scream you hear coming from Brooklyn on the morning of Tuesday, January 15, , that will be me.
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