Anna Karenina

Zarkhi focuses too much on the misery of Karenin. It’s almost like not Anna Karenina but Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin. But actually, the book is more about Anna’s struggle to become an individual in that society, to exist as a free woman while questioning every action of herself. Yes, Tolstoy is not one-sided and goes into great detail about other characters’ struggles, but here, I expected more sympathy toward Anna Karenina. I think this type of focus on Anna leaves a lot of things incomplete.

Really nice colors and good acting, but it's a little too pedantic an adaptation, it's all kind of surfacy and timid about itself.

Quite impressive performances from the leads, and very nice visuals. I found it slow at times, but perhaps that's just because I'm not generally into romance films.