While the recently released poster for the movie is a complete eye sore, the first trailer is just beautiful -
Joe Wright is one of my favorite directors, despite being responsible for awful
The Soloist. Under his supervision Keira Knightley always shines and she delivered her finest work to date in his Golden Globe winning
Atonement. Though she also managed to create work so awful in last year's
A Dangerous Method it made me want to poke my eyes out just not to see it anymore, she really looks impressive here and as for now she seems a lock for Best Actress nomination.
And when you are one of the characters in Joe Wright's Anna Karenina - you probably should. But apart from ridiculous tagline "You cannot ask 'why' about love" the actual movie has many more - and much more serious - problems. I generally like Joe Wright's films - in fact he made only one movie I despise - The Soloist. His Atonement and Hanna were in my top 15 of the respective years they were released in and I thought his Pride and Prejudice was very skillful and heartfelt adaptation of the famous novel. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about his Anna Karenina.
