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A real tragedy - of filmmaking.(Metropolitan Times)(Arts & Entertainment)(Movies)
From: The Washington Times
Date: 19970418
Author:Arnold, Gary
Bernard Rose's profoundly inadequate distillation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" starts off with an expendable chase sequence: a nightmare attributed to Alfred Molina as Levin, the reform-minded landowner and intellectual regarded as the author's alter ego and self-portrait. Levin enters pursued by a pack of wolves that chases him into a bear pit.
That's one for the books. Although a dream is described in the opening pages of the novel, it takes quite a different form: The philandering Prince Stepan Oblonsky, brother of the title character, attempts to retrieve fragments ...
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