Anna Karenina

[Tom Priestly]

An (apparently) more measured review than the one in the NY Times was  by
Liam Lacey in the Globe and Mail (Toronto), also last Friday (and no longer
on their internet site). Lacey's headline: "Ambitious Anna goes off the
rails / Despite memorable performances, Anna K. amounts to a two-hour
trailer for the novel."
Lacey sees a major fault in the casting of Sophie Marceau as Anna; she was
OK in *Braveheart* (so what? not much of a part) but, according to Lacey,
neither the audience nor Vronsky (Sean Bean, "carelessly brutal") seem to
be able to understand her accent.
Note: the director, Bernard Rose, "did" *Immortal Beloved* last year. If
he's so interested in Tolstoy, perhaps he should enrol in Patricia Burak's
class . . .

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*  Tom Priestly
*  (President, Society for Slovene Studies)
*  Modern Languages and Comparative Studies
*  University of Alberta
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