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From: The Spectator
Date: 19970524
Author:Steyn, Mark

Leo Tolstoy's America and Beavis and Butt-head Do Anna Karenina might have been a better idea. Both these films manage to be literally faithful to their source material while somehow missing the spirit. Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is actually Bernard Rose's: the former's Anna is 850 pages; the latter's comes in at just over an hour and a half. Something's gotta give. In fairness to Rose, he does manage to put some distance between his version and its three predecessors: in this telling, we see the story through the eyes of the melancholic Levin, Anna's brother's friend. It's an original ...

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