Leo Tolstoy hated theater, or at least the more stylized varieties of it. The author of some well-received plays as well as his much more famous novels, the Count despised Shakespeare, ballet, opera, and any art that couldn’t be appreciated by a sensible peasant. So it’s piquant that the latest cinematic adaptation of Anna Karenina is at its best when it is most stylized. D (...)
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Devices & Desires
‘Anna Karenina' & ‘Les Miserables'
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