He's a titan, for sure, and is widely considered to be the best novelist ever, but you're acting like Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, etc. never existed. Tolstoy is in their company, not clearly above them.mchekhov wrote:This film is easily number one contender for Best pic. Leo Tolstoy is universally considered the best writer to have ever lived. So the material they are dealing with is already do incredible, dealing with a range of topics like philosophy, life, death, religion, social constrictions, and much more.
But the most exciting thing about this film is its innovative use of theatrical means and what would be considered surrealism for film. This could possibly change cinema as it encourages more acceptance and desire for theatricality. And I couldn't be any more excited about that
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KEIRA KNIGHTELY in a Tolstoy tizzy, wants nothing to do with GRETA GARBO! Knightley refuses to rewatch ANY prior film adaptations of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” for fears she might be influenced by other actresses enacting the doomed beauty.
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RIFA wrote:KEIRA KNIGHTELY in a Tolstoy tizzy, wants nothing to do with GRETA GARBO! Knightley refuses to rewatch ANY prior film adaptations of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” for fears she might be influenced by other actresses enacting the doomed beauty.
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Good for her.RIFA wrote:KEIRA KNIGHTELY in a Tolstoy tizzy, wants nothing to do with GRETA GARBO! Knightley refuses to rewatch ANY prior film adaptations of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” for fears she might be influenced by other actresses enacting the doomed beauty.
Damn, I just couldn't recognise Jude Law at all. Now that's transformation.RIFA wrote:
oracle86 wrote:Damn, I just couldn't recognise Jude Law at all. Now that's transformation.RIFA wrote:
That's Jude Law? Wow.
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Apparently Matthew Macfadyen aka Oblonsky stole the show.
Nice to hear. I might catch Tolstoj, it's been looong time.Mixture of film, theatre, art, fashion, history...brilliantly told!
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I asked the guy about the theatrical aspect, as it was the one i was most interested in and looking forward to being implemented in more movies
It is so hard to describe, but it works brilliantly. It's surprisingly unstaged and fluid. It's kind of genius actually.
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