While Joe Wright‘s Anna Karenina will have its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in early September, it will hit theaters in the UK only days later on September 7 and promotion across the pond is already underway as three clips from the adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novel have just arrived.
The film marks the third collaboration between Keira Knightley, playing the titular role, and Wright as they go the unconventional route and virtually the entire film is confined to one location as Wright recently said over a six-minute clip from the film, “Just as the Russian aristocracy of the 19th century could be described as living upon a stage, our story unfolds in a dilapidated theatre. We shot almost all of the film in this single location, over 100 sets were built within the theater, creating a kind of fluid linearity. You can walk from one house under the stage, straight onto the horse-training ground, or go through a door and there’s a Russian landscape.”
The story unfolds in its original late-19th-century Russia high-society setting and powerfully explores the capacity for love that surges through the human heart, from the passion between adulterers to the bond between a mother and her children. As Anna (Knightley) questions her happiness, change comes to her family, friends, and community.
Aaron Johnson co-stars as Count Vronsky, Jude Law plays Alexei Karenin and the rest of the cast includes Kelly Macdonald, Matthew MacFadyen, Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Emily Watson, Olivia Williams and Ruth Wilson.
While the film plays overseas next weekend it will hit domestic theaters on November 16. You can check out the three new clips directly below.
