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This `Anna' as cold as Russian winter

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19970418
Author:Roger Ebert

LEO TOLSTOY'S ANNA KARENINA (STAR) 1/2 Anna Karenina Sophie Marceau Count Vronsky Sean Bean Constantin Levin Alfred Molina "Kitty" Scherbatsky Mia Kirshner Alexei Karenin James Fox Written and directed by Bernard Rose. Based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy. Running time: 108 minutes. Rated PG-13 (for mature thematic elements and some sensuality/nudity). Opening today exclusively at 600 N. Michigan. It's not the story but the style and the ideas that make Tolstoy's Anna Karenina a great novel and not a soap opera. There's no shortage of stories about bored rich women who leave their ...

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