Anna Karenina- the movie adaptation (2012)

Hello again! Dear readers, hope you're still OK since my last posting. Good luck pour cette rentrée ou pour le retour au taf! :) Know it must be hard, I quite like holidays myself! :) (though we might get bored in the end lol) Anyway, yesterday,as you can see by the title, I went to see another adaptation (among many which have been made) of a book I read recently (see the july article if you miseed it): Anna Karenina! Eh oui, it finally came out (lol) and was quite surprised as we all know it's always hard to adapt a book at the cinema and there is always some passages cut or some details that we find ourselves important but that are unfortunately missing...(still the case here)but despite that I quite liked this new adaptation and we still found Tolstoï's spirit in it and Anna's courage to choose love over everything she has known. She doesn't care about what people think at the time. This new adaptation is also quite surprising as first, it's made as if it was a theatre play. The decor is always changing as if you were un spectateur watching the play going on directly on the stage! There is good actors (Jude Law, Keira Knightley, Kelly Mac Donald and Aaron Taylor-Johnson (saw in the Kick-Ass movie) and I like their exchange. You spend a good time and don't get bored too much (rire). You let yourself in the movie, picturing how these characters were living and what are the rules in the Russian society. When Anna's chooses Count Vronski over her husband (she has married young), she shocked a nation, she surprises everyone. She's in her own way right and we can understand why she chooses love over her husband (who only care about his reputation). Anna wants to be happy. However, despite that, she needs to be constantly reassured about her lover's love, always asking whether he still loves her and he still does. But she is regularly asking him and is jealous if he talks to a beautiful woman. In the end, Anna seems to think everyone is judging her (maybe some but she usually doesn't seem to care) and end up resenting everyone. She's unhappy and takes her life, jumping in front of a train. Irony or not, she's met Count Vronski in a train station at the beginning of the novel. I don't like this ending much (as I always like happy ending) but fortunately for some characters like Levine, he finally marries Kitty (to whom he has proposed already but she was first smitten by Count Vronski who himself has choosen Anna over her) and have a son together. Anna's daugther (she' had a daughter with Vronski) goes to live with Serge (Anna's first son) and her (ex)husband (though I don't recall they have ever divorced). So the end is not completly sad, there are still some happy moments. Anyway, hope you'll like it as much as I did (if you're going to see the movie when it comes out) or if you simply read the book! :) Have a good week-end, take care and see you soon I hope for another article! :) xxx