Sophie Shines
By Highland May 29, 2000
Sophie Marceau does it again with an amazining
performance in Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.If you havn't yet
the pleasure of seeing thisFrench beauty in action
you should,and what better movie to introduce you
towonderful actress but Anna Karenina.Se...an Bean also stars
along with a list of other incredible and talented
actors, but in my opinion the show belongs to Marceau.
Anyway if you appreciate great liturature you're
definately going to love this movie,if you don't here's a
summary of the movie taken from SPARK NOTES:Anna
Karenina is a novel about love and marriage among the
Russian aristocracy in the 1870s. Anna, a young, elite
woman married to a powerful government minister, falls
in love with the elegant Count Vronsky; she becomes
pregnant by him, and leaves her husband Karenin and her
son Serezha to live with her lover. Despite the
intervention of friends such as her brother Oblonsky (himself
a frequent adulterer), she is unable to obtain a
divorce, and lives isolated from the Society that once
glorified her. As a man, Vronsky enjoys comparative social
freedom, which plunges Anna into increasingly intense fits
of jealousy. Under the pressure of her constant
suspicion, Vronsky's love for her begins to sour; finally,
unable to bear her plight, Anna throws herself on the
tracks beneath an oncoming train, and dies. As this
story occurs, a thoughtful, passionate young man named
Levin seeks to marry the Princess Catherine
Shcherbatskaya, affectionately known as Kitty. His first proposal
is rejected because Kitty believes that Vronsky, who
flirted with her before he met Anna, intends to marry
her. Devastated, Levin withdraws to his country estate
and works on a book about agriculture. But through
another appearance of Oblonsky, the couple reunite, and
discover that they are deeply in love; Levin's second
proposal is joyfully accepted. They marry, live happily in
the country, host their families during the summers,
and have a son. Levin's philosophical doubt and
religious skepticism trouble him despite his domestic
happiness, but he finally recognizes that the capacity for
goodness is innate. He rededicates himself to living for
his loved ones, and to giving his life meaning by
advancing the will of God.That's it... hope you're
inspired now to go rent or purchase this movie. Read more Less
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