...starring Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, James McAvoy and Paul Giamatti and my wife and I enjoyed it.
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Plummer plays internationally famed and nationally beloved Russian author Leo Tolstoy in the last days of his life when he is "the leader of the Tolstoyan Movement, whose basic tenets are brotherly love and world peace through pacifism, and a denouncement of material wealth and physical love," and no longer a novelist.
Mirren plays his loving wife of many years, a Countess herself, who wants to ensure his life's legacy and that the money earning copyrights to his written work will benefit his family and not just fund the Tolstoyan Movement.
I thought the scenes where Mirren as Countess Sofya tries to reinspire Leo's former, youthful lust in life with partial success along with Tolstoy's life slowly expiring in a final, isolated train station were each exceptional examples of moviemaking artistic license and acting excellence.
Beautifully portrayed and filmed, this movie compares as a more poetic, more rustic, more idyllic and more idealistic, but less darkly comedic variant of "The Royal Tenenbaums."
Worth a theater ticket or a home rental for those who finished reading both "Anna Karenina" and "War and Peace," IMHO.
OK, if you watched either of those as movies or even Warren Beatty's biopic "Reds" and appreciated them, then you could certainly qualify too.
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Plummer plays internationally famed and nationally beloved Russian author Leo Tolstoy in the last days of his life when he is "the leader of the Tolstoyan Movement, whose basic tenets are brotherly love and world peace through pacifism, and a denouncement of material wealth and physical love," and no longer a novelist.
Mirren plays his loving wife of many years, a Countess herself, who wants to ensure his life's legacy and that the money earning copyrights to his written work will benefit his family and not just fund the Tolstoyan Movement.
I thought the scenes where Mirren as Countess Sofya tries to reinspire Leo's former, youthful lust in life with partial success along with Tolstoy's life slowly expiring in a final, isolated train station were each exceptional examples of moviemaking artistic license and acting excellence.
Beautifully portrayed and filmed, this movie compares as a more poetic, more rustic, more idyllic and more idealistic, but less darkly comedic variant of "The Royal Tenenbaums."
Worth a theater ticket or a home rental for those who finished reading both "Anna Karenina" and "War and Peace," IMHO.
OK, if you watched either of those as movies or even Warren Beatty's biopic "Reds" and appreciated them, then you could certainly qualify too.
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