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'Anna Karenina': Leo Tolstoy as music video.

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From: The Boston Herald
Date: 19970425
Author:Verniere, James

"Leo Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina.' "

Rated PG-13. At the Kendall Square Cinema.

2 1/2 stars

Bernard Rose, creator of the new screen version of "Anna Karenina," isn't a film director. He's a fashion photographer.

After making the flashy B-movies "Paperhouse" and "Candyman," Rose has gone on to write and direct the specious Beethoven biopic "Immortal Beloved" and his current, similarly specious effort, offically titled "Leo Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina.' " These latter two might be described as MasterpieceTheater-meets-Classic Comics, films full of snazzy MTV effects, ...

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