Anna Karenina Premiere Report

Leicester Square dances to Vronsky beat

Anna Karenina Premiere Report

by Phil de Semlyen |
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Joe Wright's wholly original take on Anna Karenina is a bold, colourful period piece that reunites him with old pals Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen, throws in new collaborators in Jude Law and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and throws in a Movember's worth of facial furniture for good measure.

Wright and his cast gathered on the Leicester Square red carpet, albeit shorn of those moustaches, for the film's world premiere. Hit the play button to see them in all their finery.

Anna Karenina is, of course, Leo Tolstoy's great epic of love, passion and duty set against a backdrop of gossipy, fashion-forward Tsarist Moscow and Saint Petersburg. In Wright's hands, it's a majestically innovative vision of cinema as theatre.

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Anna Karenina** is out on September 7. Read Empire's review here.

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