I was already excited, but now, I'm nearly foaming at the mouth.
Focus Features has unveiled a first look at their giant adaptation of Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina." Featuring some awe-inspiring pomp and circumstance, it seems the novel is going to be given the lush and expansive treatment it richly deserves.
Directed by Joe Wright and adapted for the screen by god-among-men Tom Stoppard, from what we can glean from the trailer, the film detailing the search for love and happiness of a young woman and her embattled affair amongst Russian's aristocracy is going to oscillate between real live sets and a limbo-like set with a stage, amphitheater, and gilded ballroom. If the ambition on display pans out as well as it looks in these two and a half minutes, audiences are in for a real treat. (Plus it'll be absolute catnip for the Academy.)
Trailer after the jump
It doesn't take but a few seconds to realize that the craft departments will be in top form all across the board. Cinematographer Seamus McGarvey, production designer/set decorator team Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer, costumer Jacqueline Durran gleams with an opulence and a richness that befits the subject matter as well as being cinematic gold for the eye.
I have high hopes for Knightley too. She's caught a lot a considerable amount of flack of late for her astonishing performance in "A Dangerous Method," and I think that if she pulls this off she could finally be back in the best actress conversation. Fingers crossed.
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