Movie Reviews: Anna Karenina, Lawless, That’s My Boy
A God-defying passion rages at the heart of Leo Tolstoy’s which opens in Imperial Russia in 1874. Happily married to the noble Alexei Karenin (Jude Law), Anna (Keira Knightley) encounters the smouldering Count Vronsky (Aaron Johnson) on a trip to Moscow.
An affair follows which scandalises the higher echelons of an excessively mannered Russian society Adapted by Tom Stoppard and directed by Joe Wright, who previously directed Pride and Prejudice (2005) and Atonement (2007), the tale is couched in a deliberately arch style designed to emphasise the extent to which Anna’s transgression in betraying her husband and son plays out like a morality fable.
