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Livingston Library's Monday at the Movies: Anna Karenina

The second movie in this season's Monday at the Movies at Livingston Public Library is Anna Karenina, on Monday, February 24. It will be shown at 1:00 pm in the afternoon and again in the evening at 7:00 pm. The general theme for this season is “From page to film,” featuring movies that began with a book, or, in the case of one movie, an article.

This version, made in 2012, stars Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Matthew Macfadyen. Tom Stoppard wrote the screenplay, based on the classic novel by Leo Tolstoy, which was first published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger.

Anna Karenina is the tragic story of a married aristocrat and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story starts when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother Oblonsky and his womanizing.

A parallel story within the novel is that of Konstantin Levin, a country landowner who wishes to marry Kitty, a relation to Anna through marriage. 

Tolstoy’s novel explores a diverse range of topics: hypocrisy, jealousy, faith, fidelity, family, marriage, society, progress, and passion, and the contrasts of lifestyles of the city versus the rural farm country.

Other movies in the series are Much Ado About Nothing (March 24), Lee Daniels’ The Butler (April 28), Captain Phillips (May 19) and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (June 23). The Livingston Library Endowment Fund sponsors these free film programs which are open to everyone.

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