It wouldn’t be the first time, of course, but it’s looking increasingly like this year’s holiday season—and Oscar season—will be a battle of costume dramas. Joining the recent trailers for The Great Gatsby and Les Misérables (not to mention other period pictures like The Master and Django Unchained), we now have director Joe Wright’s adaptation of Anna Karenina, which was written by the great playwright Tom Stoppard. Keira Knightley plays the title character, while Jude Law and Aaron Johnson portray the two lovers who fight over Anna’s affections and freedom.
While there’s no Watch the Throne blaring over Stepan’s internal struggles, Wright’s Anna Karenina looks to be a similarly snazzy affair (no pun intended). It opens with a conductor tapping his baton on a podium, and the feel of an elaborate staged performance, with the heavy hand of the artist at the helm, is sustained throughout.
That artist, judging from the trailer, is decidedly recognizable as Joe Wright. Wright seems to get more stylish with each film he does, from the beautifully shot Pride and Prejudice to his more audacious adaptation of Atonement all the way to his recent techo-fairy tale Hanna. Each of those movies is quite good (I’ll pass over the more manipulative Soloist). Here, though—especially since the book consciously and critically engages with the romance genre—all the pomp and heaving bosoms looks a bit sillier. That said, the movie doesn’t look stuffy, at least (apart from that gilded calligraphic font).
READ MORE: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/06/20/anna_karenina_2012_trailer_keira_knightley_stars_in_joe_wright_and_tom_stoppard_s_adaptation_.html
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