Viral Video: Keira Knightley, Jude Law in Anna Karenina

Though Joe Wright’s Pride and Prejudice doesn’t top most favourite films list, Atonement, his stirring adaptation of Ian McEwan’s namesake novel not only made him the youngest filmmaker to ever inaugurate the Cannes Film Festival, but made him one of those names you Google regularly to keep a tab on what he is working on.

The trailer of his much-awaited adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina comes with his hallmark opulent painting-like frames, his favourite, Keira Knightley, in gorgeous Victorian gowns and a sharply edited montage of scenes that take you down the tumultuous life that Tolstoy’s heroine lived.

Watch trailer here:

Tolstoy’s book and Wright’s film tells you the story of Anna Karenina, a Russian princess married to a much older aristocrat, who finds love in Count Vronsky – a young, rakishly good-looking man. The film follows Anna’s descent to near-dementia from the euphoria that love brings to her life.

Anna Karenina is just the kind of work Wright would choose to film. Like Atonement, it works on a set of complicated emotions that make for the most vulnerable, the most turbulent relationships. Keira Knightley seems perfectly cast, as does Aaron Taylor Johnson. Our only grouse? Jude Law as a boring middle aged man! For his female fans at least, this one’s going to be hard to stomach!