It's actually taken directly from the book, he is a profesional dancer and the hole interaction is spot on

@@Lennyman Yes I think it was pretty standard for there to be professional dance partners hired for European balls and parties at that time. Hostesses were usually not able to balance the number of men and women at these parties (and plenty of the noblemen who weren't interested in wife hunting also didn't feel like dancing much) so she could do it by hiring "professionals" from poorer noble houses. These men were gentlemen, could dance well and hold a good conversation but most importantly they didn't flirt with the young ladies. They were there to start the dancing and make sure everyone had a good time. They could be relied upon to make sure the young ladies had fun but not be a rival for any heiresses.

@@ayameisastar quite interesting, thanks for the extra insight

​@ayameisastar exactly there was always a man in charge of dancing at the ball. Kitty came without partner and so it was his job to be her first dance and introduce her to the other dancers so to say. When she came he immediately walked up to her after her conversation with Boris, so she wouldn't stand there awkwardly waiting for partners.

I found it funny how he swept her up so suddenly and intensely at the beginning lol

no fr. watched bullet train, then this movie, then nocturnal animals. the man has INSANE range

Agreed af

And Keira is overrated

He’s so gorgeous it hurts

FOR REAL

alone with the other dancers being frozen and then coming to life when they waltz past them!!

Yes! Back in that era, sharing more than 3 dances with the same person was considered imprudent and rather risqué. Hence the disapproving stares...

@@plantsbyhailey8326 I love that detail! beautiful

It's charming crazy love

Yes!! I actually counted the dance partners, and you're right, it was at least 10! What makes this such a well executed scene is that, falling in love should be a beautiful dream, and it was for Anna and Vronsky, but from the perspective of Kitty, it was a nightmare.

wow, it is a great comment :) even the color of their clothes justify yourself

It's not so subtle though. This "waltz" is pretty much a ballet performance

Never noticed this!

Лебеди очень верные птицы, они создают пару на всю жизнь. Экранизация романа ужасная и вульгарная. Нет даже понимания того времени, описанных событий, когда девушка стеснялась даже взглянуть на молодого человека. Скромность и чистота ,были достоинством девушки,женщины Такой вальс просто был невозможен, это недопустимо, такая близость.Это сразу дуэль.Если зритель этим восхищается, это значит ,душевный разврат.

​@@stefaroy3650 the old same issues with this director's adaptation of classics. He just want it all to be about the drama and how hot the actors are. It's really sad, and bad taste. He did the same with pride and prejudice (with Keira as E.Bennet , absolutelly horrific) and there is lots of people who think its a masterpiece. 😖 The only adaptation that he did that I think is ok is Atonement, but for very litle.

I noticed it to 💖

It's like she is walking on air

And Keira none!

Yes! Her hand movements are so fluid and graceful, truly a ballerina.

Actually she has been taking ballet lessons since childhood.

Wow!! Excellently said!!

А мне в этой сцене ничего не нравится. Пошло. Анна Каренина не соответствует описанию по книге. И не передаёт сототой доли тех чувств, возвышенных, безрассудных, страсных. Даже не приятно. Так опошлить произведение. Простите если кого-то обидела.

Where was this literary analysis when we read this book in school 🥰

@@vitasem6940 не стоит рассматривать фильм как изображение сцен из книги. Фильм-самостоятельное произведение, передающий интонацию, идеи уже режиссера, сценариста, актёров. Круто, когда есть такие литературные основы, которые можно интерпретировать до бесконечности. В этом фильме это сделано очень красиво и художественно. ...Что интересно, моя мама недавно читала Анну Каренину и оценила героиню и ее поступки примерно также, как в фильме "Зависть богов", невысоко, так скажем. Возвышенные и страстные чувства ее не впечатлили. Хотя я понимаю вашу боль, если то, что вы определяете как высокое, другие представляют низким. Просто хотела сказать, что интонация фильма созвучна восприятию части читателей и имеет право на существование.

@@user-mw2gd8mf9x Спасибо, я высказала своё мнение. Весь фильм я пыталась посмотреть, но не смогла. Впрочем как и остальные фильмы отечественного производства последних лет об Анне Карениной. Но в этом фильме лично меня оскорбляет, что Анну Каренину изображает актриса, которая играла лезбиянку и будет ассоциироваться с представителями меньшинств Что в свою очередь даёт тень на это прекрасное произведение. После прочтения книги тебе хочется быть прекрасней, тебе хочется жить и любить. Ты понимаешь что-то неуловимое, что не можешь объяснить словами. Да согласна режиссёр может взять сюжет из книги и показать по своему видению, но тогда не нужно называть фильм Анна Каренина.

@ymarrero23 come now I thought that was a brilliant observation. I was amazed myself at how sensuously the waltz was portrayed here. Yet I am a big fan of the tango.

The weird touchy flaily arms were a bit much. That's not really a part in normal waltzes, right? I get they were trying to make it artsy and emotional, but was a bit overdone for me.

@@dgriite Its not a lot like a typical waltz, its mote like a ballet performance, and they are not trying to make it artsy. They are trying to make it like a ballet performance. And it works.

@@martineshamzin7535 Doesn't work for me. I understand the wanted to add more movement/emotion/grace to the scene, and a touch of the fluttery arms can be seen in other scenes at well. It's subtler and works. In this scene, it reads a bit like "Slap some russian ballet kind of moves to make the viennese waltz look more 'russian' and angsty" and "make them awkwardly touch each others faces and arms to make it look more sensual".

@@dgriite Well, everyone has different tastes. It was definitely. bold move, and Im sure that means some will love it some will hate it. I have personally never seen anything quite like it.The whole story really isn't very sensible though, if you know what I mean. Would someone Anna's age really kill herself because she wasn't able to keep a man's attention 100% on herself? She had looks, she had money. Why not ditch Vronsky and go back to Italy? And why were they so completely unable to make friends there? A good looking couple, foreign, with money! that just doesn't seem right. Open. salon. You don't have to paint yourself. All I ever get reading the story is that no one would ever really act like that. Its super unrealistic. So why not make it even MORE unrealistic. Doesn't that make sense? Im not trying to convince you, of course. Any opinion is as good as any other in such matters.

It was not supposed to be a Vienna waltz since we are in Russia .... Also the real composer of this tune is Dimitrii Shostakovic. Just saying for what is worth x

Her name is Alicia Vikander and yes, she was wonderful!

​@@monikamaciejewska846Wasn't the music done by Dario Marianelli? He did was influenced by Shostakovic and Tchaikovsky tho but he was the once who wrote soundtrack

Алисия - профессиональная балерина по образованию! И так же прекрасно танцует в "Королевском романе"!❤🎉

@@monikamaciejewska846 Google Shostakovich, The Second Waltz - it's totally different and incomparably better.

С похотью, а не с восхищением. Это нужно понимать....

Deadly passion.

@@lenka156 This movie was intense but excellent! Well done.

​@@user-ei4fg2dm4t They dont see the diference.. shallow its hollywood's midle name.

@@user-ei4fg2dm4t only wise women seem to understand this.

Omg I haven't even noticed before yet it's so obvious! Thank you for pointing it out!

Thankfully since they’re brother and sister in this film 😂

@@Pastelnightingale lol yea

My thoughts exactly!

Call me crazy but that just might be because she and Matthew Macfadyen are not romantically linked in this film…

It's called acting 😉

No I simply can’t feel a bit of the imperial Russia

@@snorkfroken7056 I can. Its not in any way accurate, but the artificial mannerisms make it work.

2 @Karolina Servilha Don't forget, Russian Royalty were Germans! In fact, so were the British Royals. They changed their name to Windsor. In many ways Russians were copying what they thought Europe was doing, and over did it.

Sorry, this is nothing like the times which Tolstoy wrote about. Costumes are off, manners are off, the room and decorations are off, the dance is off, the music is off, the people are off. It's like an attempt to perform "Pride and Prejudice" in Civil War costumes with Gershwin music in train station interiors.

@@user-ed5zl2cw2h Totally agree - totally off on every level.

Good and Evil.

Это вообще не вальс,это породия. Взгляд извращенного человека на совсем незнакомую культуру царской России. Ни костюмы,ни поведение не показывают красоту и культуру, изысканность,манеры и обязательный этикет.

Yes

@@stefaroy3650 к сожалению, вы упустили суть картины. Джо Райт и не пытался реалистично показать царскую Россию, но мастерски исполнил театральное представление по мотивам романа Толстого. Учитесь смотреть глубже

Its more like orientalish waltzish something c'mon guys :))

@@stefaroy3650 это действительно похоже на пародию.что хотел сим сказать автор загадка?

Damn. We were just trying to survive MS DOS and the Oregon Trail when I was in elementary school.

@@energymaven7537 ñ

😂

@@energymaven7537 oh believe me, we were doing that, too haha!

AR points…blast from the past

I want to learn more. 🎄

I've always wondered when people dance like that how no one bumps into each other

The choreography is by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, a well-known choreographer. His other choreographies are amazing! Definitely worth it to check some out as well! Like 'I will fall for you' from Woodkid or Aqua or Qutb!

It never was underrated

Absolutely. The choreography and cinematography all timed to a rhythmically complex musical score, the erotic breathing turned to whispers of gossip, the costumes, all of it. Miraculous. Sexy. Precise. Emotionally devastating.

@@kay6692 Yes, people hated it because its not what they expected.

You should watch more films. Your comment just hurt me.

Music is lovely, but all those stages and even dance here in this scene is just weird, i did not like it.

This was a beautiful film to watch.

You must never seen dirty dancing nobody keep baby in a corner

@ T. Chester I have seen it a lot but my statement still stands. This is on a whole other level than Dirty Dancing choreography. This is very tight and pristine and not sloppy and loose like Dirty Dancing.

I wouldn't tell to many people. Sorry, it wasn't that impressive.

Akapam57 I have only told youtube. Cancel me if you wish 😁

❤❤❤

This film is the best summation of the true intent of each original character-Levin, Anna, Karenin, Kitty-they are all complex and poignant

The book is actually an awful bore, and the way Tolstoy writes women would make almost anyone angry. I am certainly no feminist, but he literally thinks women are idiots.

perhaps the translation was not that good :)

@@martineshamzin7535 no no not true at all, the female characters are as diverse in personality as the male ones are! I was very impressed by the way he wrote the women and understood their plights

@@martineshamzin7535 i think a lot of the problem is that he wrote it in real time. we followed everything the characters did on a regular day. that’s why it seems borish. but i don’t think any of the women in this book were “stupid”. Anna may have been foolish but she knew what she was doing and the other women in the book are portrayed as pure.

@@martineshamzin7535 I disagree. There is a great variety of characters. With the same logic he wrote some of the men being idiots or constant flirts which is not true with every man in the world even in that society. Kitty was the classical hyper sensitive kinda silly young girl while her companion Varenka was a very efficient and wise woman Anna was logical at first and slowly derailed because she couldn't stand society's pressure. Her sister in law began from a frightened woman who would collapse at the news of her husband flirting and she in the end turned into a compassionate woman that was willing go go against society to offer some support to Anna. I would agree that the book became boring at certain points because it got ridiculously long and had many different stories together but I absolutely disagree about your comment about Tolstoy's characters

ABSOLUTELY!

Oh my😂 that would be a sad sequel of pride and prejudice

Snake? Like passion?

I read the book in its original language several times. I have a BA in Russian Language & Literature. Is this film true to the book? No. The story in the book is darker, more oppressive. Does this film stand alone in its beauty and poignancy? Absolutely! and maybe, just maybe, the film has encouraged some viewers to read the book and see that the two can coexist and be appreciated on their own merit

It is actually a good read. Captures you.

Someone from West can not , absolutely can not express Tolstoy ! There is no chance ! The way of thinking is not to compare ! Please, do not kill Tolstoy with terrible presentation.

@@vidavuk1649 stay mad.

@@vidavuk1649 Totally agree. I was just disgusted. And how dare they to insult Tolstoy assigning it at elementary school!

Um, Classic Hollywood films would like a word with you...

Same director for both projects. I noticed it's his schtick.

the difference is that elizabeth and mr,. darcy are siblings in here haha

It’s exactly as her dance with Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice

Elizabeth and Mr.Darcy run so these two could walk.

Same director!

Well it was the same director

And Tom in succession

No way

Yeahh 🥺😭I was also, surprised but they did act great as siblings in this film ❤️

She's captivated me ever since I was a child, so magnetic

What?! The dances, the clothes, the hairstyles, and people's manners in this firm are absolutely historically inaccurate. If you think the opposite - you don't know history at all.

@samantha smith I answered the phrase "They did their best job at researching the era: the fashion, the dances, the story itself". This phrase sounds as if all of the above is conveyed in the film authentically. And this is not so at all.

25 volte??? Questa pizza hollywoodiana?? Assolutamente lontana dalla trama del romanzo di Tolstoj? Vronshji è tutto meno che l'affascinante conte del libro di cui si innamora la Karenina.

This dance is absolutely historically inaccurate, so people of 19th century didn't dance like this too.

@@Olga_Ovechkina Thank you... it's always nice when people always see the negative instead of the what's positive about the statement...

also u would not have had a chance to attend a ball like this since ur not high society, u probably would have been miserable fighting to survive

​@RED-my9hl I couldn't help thinking of all the atrocities each uniformed mam represented... how they treated other humans in different climates and then come back and behave so genteel and if that offered a type of dangerous appeal to the prospects or actually a bit of a red flag.. its a very weird situation

It's a very sensual dance.. moving you arm across each others chests like that ..

…it’s not a musical just so you know

Здесь ничего русского! Это отвратительно! Смотрите хорошие классические экранизации.

I don’t want to be rude, disrespectful, or anything but it’s probably because he married a 45 year old lady when he was 22

@@ieasliygetaddicted3531 so what?

Yes, it becomes off key and deranged sounding.

Yes that was the point! The music fits the desperation in the air

Yes. And there was the sound of passionate breathing along with it!

I think the music started to sound strange and distorted to match Kitty’s distress/emotions.

😁👍 всё ужасно в фильме, а танец просто полный отстой 🤦

Hollywood crap

))) Так Толстой только повод, каждый снимает в соответствии со своим духовным состоянием. Скажем так,они нас не удивили ни разу))

Какой вычурный танец, последовательность движений-кривляний

Очень красивый фильм. Лучшая экранизация

Bhe il film non lo rispecchia per niente. Hollywood rovina sempre tutto

Yup lol💖💖💖💖 gorgeous

Какие жуткие танцы. И неприлично ржущие офицеры на галерке на светском балу 🙈

I thought the same thing

Голливуд вы зря обругали, но про фильм согласна, ничего похожего по духу на Толстого нет. А уж танцы и костюмы вообще как самодеятельность. Актеры не играют Толстого, а играют какую то современную лавстори

What is a good Russian version ? I want to watch it

@Cashmere а это не ругательство. Мне вот тоже сразу пришло на ум "голливуд" - что-то очередное про диснеевских принцесс с шаблонно кружащимимся парами и взлетающими юбками

They really are

Those jewels look amazing.

White house black market..has the exact same necklace $100 . Obviously doesn't have diamonds....but is as beautiful and outstanding with any attire ;)

It´s a British film, not a Russian one.

@@rosedewittbukater4203 based on a Russian book.

@@dahveedandsarkis2123 I think everybody knows Tolstoy, don´t you?

well... Me too would be mad if some foreings take some of my national literature classics and just made it into a product to show actors being horny on screen, and erase the cultural background just for do they shit on it.

Right? I’m living to read the Russians completely obliterate the film lol

Oh no 💔💔💔

За шедевр тут автор сценария отвечает да костюмер, да Джуд Лоу)

Да подумала где перчатки и веера и вообще на плечи при танцах офицеры поднимали лишь дамы того поведения в закрытом обществе!

😄😄😄Это точно

No, no one ever danced like that...

Let's say it is a nod to the influence that Tchaikovsky had on the performing arts.

no, this is just very stylized choreography for the film based far more on contemporary dance than any traditional ballroom dance of the Russian Empire. Also it's not supposed to be a Waltz they're dancing, the title of the video is wrong. In the book they dance a Mazurka which was a type of fast tempo folk dance not unlike a polka. The reason why it being a Mazurka is important is because the Mazurka is what you would dance with your intended, and so all the watching guests who are waiting for Count Vronsky to propose to Kitty would expect him to dance it with her. When he instead dances it with another man's wife while Kitty is right there, that's quite a scandal on the same sort of level of how weird everyone got after Oscar Isaac kissed Jessica Chastain's arm on a red carpet photo call, like, it wasn't anything bad in and of itself, but people made a lot of assumptions and talked about it for days. But the intricacies of this plot detail are unfortunately lost in the adaptation from book to screen. We only get a couple of background lines about Kitty's mother's meddling match making and that couple dancing saying "You watch, he'll dance the Mazurka with Kitty" things that only make sense if you already know the context rather than doing anything to give you the context.

@@ArtemisScribe A polka is in 2/4 or 4/4, generally speaking; a mazurka is a 3/4 Polish traditional dance with an elongated first accent--usually a dotted 8th, followed by a 16th, then 2 quarters. The music played for this clip--original or not--is a waltz: 3/4. The arms are not standard but seem to be some stylization of the Laendler--very charming, and something one might actually see in young people in Austria or Switzerland. I can't speak for Russia, but little fads in ballroom dance do occur... It is choreographed, of course, as is the stopped motion of other dancers, but I could not say it might not spontaneously occur to the young--so to say it "never" occurred seems rather unrealistic... And certain music enchants us into believing we were once graceful and spontaneous--even if we weren't...

@@ArtemisScribe Ah, that's what's going on! I've neither read the book or seen the film, so thanks for the context to the increasing sense of panic in the clip!

Is that a meme? I keep seeing it in comments.