Author: Keira Knightley

Edition: Blu-ray

Format: NTSC

Release Date: 2013-02-19

Details: Product Description The third collaboration of Academy Award® nominee Keira Knightley with acclaimed director Joe Wright, following the award-winning box office successes Pride & Prejudice and Atonement, is a bold, theatrical new vision of the epic story of love, adapted from Leo Tolstoy's timeless novel by Academy Award® winner Tom Stoppard ( Shakespeare in Love). The story powerfully explores the capacity for love that surges through the human heart. As Anna (Ms. Knightley) questions her happiness and marriage, change comes to all around her. -------- Anna Karenina, an epic love story adapted from Leo Tolstoy's classic novel by Tom Stoppard (Oscar® winner for Shakespeare in Love), is the third collaboration between Keira Knightley (Oscar® nominee) and director Joe Wright, following the films Pride & Prejudice and Atonement, two masterpieces that garnered accolades and box office success. The story is set in its original setting, that of Russian high society at the end of the 19th century, and explores the surprising capacity of the human heart to love, from the passion between two lovers guilty of adultery, to the inextricable bond that unites a mother to her children. As Anna (Keira Knightley) questions her own happiness, a wind of change blows through her family, friends and entire community. Amazon.ca By filming Leo Tolstoy's timeless novel as a series of theater pieces that play out across stages and catwalks, Joe Wright extracts Anna Karenina from the dusty pages of history. In her third collaboration with the filmmaker, Keira Knightley portrays the St. Petersburg aristocrat as a woman who loves her son, Sergei, more than her husband, Alexei Karenin (Jude Law). On a trip to Moscow, she meets Count Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), whose Snidely Whiplash mustache spells trouble, even as his sky-blue eyes prove impossible to resist. Wright contrasts their passionate union with the less cataclysmic concerns of Anna's sister-in-law, Dolly ( Boardwalk Empire's Kelly Macdonald), whose capacity for forgiveness puts Alexei to shame, and Levin ( Harry Potter's Domhnall Gleeson), who never gives up on Dolly's sister, Kitty (Alicia Vikander), even after she rejects him in hopes of a more glamorous future. When the affair between Anna and Vronsky becomes public, Tolstoy's antiheroine risks losing everything, but as readers know: she just can't help herself. Thought Shakespeare in Love screenwriter Tom Stoppard ties together a colorful galaxy of characters who orbit around the photogenic central couple, the secondary performers provide the more deeply grounded performances, particularly Law and Gleeson. And for all the stylized, Douglas Sirk-inspired melodrama, Knightley's Pride & Prejudice costar, Matthew Macfadyen, who plays Dolly's wayward husband, lightens the mood whenever he utters one of his clever quips. If it isn't completely successful, Wright's reinvention is frequently quite dazzling--much like the genuine Chanel diamonds that illuminate Knightley's porcelain complexion. --Kathleen C. Fennessy Special Features • Deleted Scenes • Anna Karenina: An Epic Story About Love • Adapting Tolstoy • Keira As Anna • On Set With Director Joe Wright • Dressing room Anna • Anna Karenina: Time-Lapse Photography • Feature Commentary with Director Joe Wright • Previews

UPC: 065935591269

EAN: 0065935591269

Languages: English

Binding: Blu-ray

Item Condition: New