A poor telling of an oft told tale.

=G=

"Anna Karenina", (circa 1997) is a lavish abbreviated retelling of the Tolstoy classic which tries to do too much with too little time. The capable cast seems to have mostly British accents (except for Marceau's rather obvious French undertone) which seem out of place in a film shot and set in Russia. This leap-frogging flick does resound with the import of one maxim: If you can't do it right, don't do it at all.

score 6/10

=G= 22 April 2001

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw0404009/