Thursday, April 5, 2012

WAR AND PEACE


Last Monday afternoon I was feeling so lazy after lunch that I started channel-hopping until I found "War and Peace", a film based on the novel by Tolstoy that relates the French invasion of Russia by the Napoleonic army.
It was beginning in that moment and I stopped because I wanted to watch it since I watched the movie "The Last Station" some days before, which tells the story of this famous author. I liked the film and I wanted to watch "Ana Karenina" and "War and Peace" because they were his best novels.

To my surprise, there it was "War and Peace"!
The story is seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. The film is very long and there happen different love stories, but the principal is Natasha and Andréi's one.
They fall in love with each other but he wants to respect his father's will: not to marry her yet, leave for war and stay there for a year (his father real intention is make him forget her because he doesn't like her). The couple know that it will be hard but both accept.
A year is such a long time and the History continues with its troubles...
I will tell no more so I don't spoil the story, but let me say it's a good film (although I would say it's not a film, but a mini-serial...what a extremely long film it is!) and there are fantastic actors. It's very moving too, I couldn't stop crying at the end of the film! I like how the characters evolve along the story too. They change so much!

In closing, I leave you a quote I liked from the movie:

"Life can bring you where you would never dare to go with your imagination"

And here's the trailer: (it's 9 minutes long,  but bear in mind that the film has four parts of 100 minutes each one)






Monica

4 comments:

  1. ooh my sweetie! what happend with my comment? :(

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  2. mmmm ana karenina! I want to read that novel! One friend of mine told me that it's a good book. I have to ask for it in the library...
    Nice post:)

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  3. Thank you babe :)
    oh, great! so I'll be able to borrow your book! hahah ;)

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