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CLASSIC PRODUCTION IS ALL GLITZ, NO DEPTH.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)

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From: The Virginian Pilot
Date: 19970726
Author:Vincent, Mal

Byline: MAL VINCENT, MOVIE CRITIC

DIRECTOR Bernard Rose has turned Count Leo Tolstoy's classic romantic novel ``Anna Karenina'' into a murky melodrama that is so heavyhanded it sinks under its own weight. It is not surprising, since this is the same director who vulgarized Beethoven's private life in the similarly overblown ``Immortal Beloved.''

Billed pretentiously as ``Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina,'' the present film is sumptuous to look at. Filmed in St. Petersburg, Russia, it awesomely captures the gold-encrusted mansions and exquisite clothes of Imperial Russia. There ...

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