Monday, January 7, 2013

7 - Anna Karenina (2012)

Come and ti's the season for awards. The Golden Globes this Sunday and the Oscar nominations ushers in the cheery mood of film merits. Anna Karenina of 2012 is the ambitious retelling of the irreplaceable Joe Wright hauling its heavyweights of this big shot adaptation of Leo Tolstoy tragic heroine of love and a victim of her circumstance and of her own choices. 

This new film, thankfully, can be reliably viewed from a good at least DVD copy for awards consideration. On this case for one subtle review. From what I see it doesn't look like any other period film with costumes and character names you cannot tell from the other. It is a novel set on a stage to look like a musical orchestrated not by it's dashing symphonic score but by scenes, evolving backdrops, elaborate costumes, chandeliers, doors and paintings. Their dance of scenes and script make it all theatrical. Its like almost looking like a dance, a concerto, a ballet or almost an MTV music video. All in all you can say that life is a stage and everyone mere players in Imperial Russia when people don't seem to ever get sober enough.

The DVD copy is a limitation for this wonderful piece of art. It deserves to be seen in all ist 1080p or extended accolade of scenes and shots. It stands there among many ambitious films such as Moulin Rouge, a classic film that takes you over the edge of grace and artistic cinematic experience.

Bravo!

Amidst all this artistry, the heavy tones of a period film lifts up with color and production design, telling you of a story that has undertones of love, choice and reality. This echoes upon the viewers a mirror, that is set upon the female protagonist to circle around the characters in the novel and pick on the question we do ask ourselves in watching this film. Embrace yourself fro a truly filmatic surprise and take a grand ride into the vission of Joe Wright's Anna Karenina.

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