Joe Wright is back with the usual suspects, shuffle the deck slightly that turns lovers to siblings, the British Countryside to the Stiffening cold backdrop that is Russia. Finally, tweak the social standings of our main cast; from slumming it in a house that makes the Weasleys look flash to luscious ballrooms that can only be fit to house Aristocracy and thus we set the scene for Anna Karenina.
The Story focuses primarily on the story of Anna Karenina, though in the book of the same name (of which this film is based) she is a Princess, that isn't made evident, so instead she is percieved of the "Serena" of Russian Society. She is contently married to Alexei Karenin (Jude Law) and has a son, but all of these things seem to be of little importance to her when, on a visit to help sort her brothers marital problems she is soon aquainted with Count Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson).
Things from her take a mind and body of their own as Anna and the Count begin their not so secret affair and help to entangle everyone in the web of complications that arise from their snubbed relationship.
A second strand is woven into the tale Anna, that of Konstantin Levin. His story is an opposing parallel of Annas as he rises up from his inital misery at the start of the film to find happiness in a range of ways that he never thought could happen to himself.
The prime appeal of this film to me was the theatrical form in which it was filmed, it added its own excitement completely separate from the surrounding storyline yet at the same time managing to add something emotional to the movie. It kept you on your toes as you wondered where you would be from one scene to the next. It helped take you on the adventure with the characters on the screen
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