Ah, premiere photos! I was wondering how this fall and winter could compete with The Summer of Gossip, and these pics remind me of why fall is my favorite time – all of the big awards-season hopefuls come out to play, and it’s a great time for premieres and fashion and big red carpet moments. These are photos from last night’s UK premiere of Anna Karenina, which many hope will be one of the first big awards-season attention-getters. It helps that Keira Knightley has joined up once again with director Joe Wright, a much-celebrated collaboration which has previously yielded Atonement (which I hated) and Pride & Prejudice (which I loved). Wright has filled out the Karenina cast with actors like Jude Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Matthew Macfadyen, Emily Watson and on and on. It looks good!
Anyway, back to the fashion. In this post, I’m just going to be discussing Anna and Alexei, otherwise known as Keira and Jude Law. Keira wore this pale pink Chanel gown which… ugh. No, now, I don’t hate it completely. I want to fool with the design, make the skirt more flow-y and less like a bell. I want the sheer part of the top to be cut a different way too. So… yes, this is not my style at all, but I “get” that Keira loves her lace and her super-feminine, cake-looking gowns, so I will accept this. It’s not terrible. It’s just her taste.
But can we talk about Jude Law for a second? Dear God, he looks GREAT. What has been doing? What’s changed? Is it the power of a new rug? Maybe some new plugs? Or has his hairline not been enhanced at all? Did he just get a good night’s sleep and maybe a really great facial? And together with Keira… my, they make such an attractive couple. If Jude was a little bit younger and Keira was a little bit older, I would say that these two might have had a really powerful connection. Keira likes ‘em pretty, and Jude likes ‘em small. It would have been a match made in heaven.
Shall we watch the trailer again?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Keira is a very good friend of Sienna Miller, she would never touch Jude IMO.
Exactly!
Yep, but they do look good together, like they probably feel confortable working together and really understand each other. Nothing scandalous, tough.
Also, Jude looks AMAZING and Keira is just so gorgeous! Sigh.
Oh my god, Jude looks amazing!!
yes he looks dapper again. and it seems he’s had a fantastic hair transplant treatment.
The man can pull off outfits that would leave others looking ridiculous. Jaunty and dramatic scarves, waistcoats, interesting shoes and fabulous materials.
He dresses like an 18th century definition of “thespian.”
Dunno if it’s a hair transplant (at least I hope not, because I think he looks fantastic with the receding hairline). I think he’s just combed the back part of his hair forward to hide the hairline — so it’s a combover, but one that actually looks good! (Didn’t know that was possible…)
Lord, he looks yummy! That fricking smile melts my insides, I swear.
Pragmatically speaking, I think he definitely got some new veneers, they are practically jumping out of his mouth. They seem a little too big and too wide for him, but not in a hideous way, just needs to learn to smile a little narrower and they will look perfect.
Whatever was done to his hair, it worked great. It was starting to look very thin and sparse there for a while. I think he went thru the ‘I’m balding and finally proud of it’ phase (after many years of denial), but now he has done something that simply appears to have stopped the process. Whatever it was, the hair looks natural, thick, and healthy, and there is MUCH more of it. Looking good! (John Travolta, PLEASE take notice, you look hideous with your painted on rug!).
I spent the last few years reeling thinking how his looks went from being an absolute dashing, regal, ‘real man’ to a sleazy, washed up, pervert boozehound.
Oh, he definitely IS BACK!
Also, I think he’s starting to resemble Michael Caine as he ages (it’s probably that too broad smile), who is not a bad example to follow, at all.
She looks great!
I just wish the dress had less flare at the bottom, and that the rosettes spread out a little more at the top instead of in that odd “bib” shape.
I agree with you, Kaiser, I like that dress okay but would want to tweak it. Get rid of the awful belt. It looks like a sheet of nori seaweed. Change up the collar. Tweak the bottom a little.
Even just removing the belt would be helpful. Otherwise I don’t hate it. She is beautiful, I feel like she could wear anything and I’d feel the same way.
Also, I am a huge Keira fan for the sole reason that Pride & Prejudice is easily one of my top 5 fave movies ever. It is perfection, and she does SUCH a good job. I think I’ll watch it tonight actually. <3
I love her face, and Jude is so so so handsome.
I don’t hate the dress but it could do with a few changes and getting rid of that ugly belt and fixing the neckline are two of them. Keira has looked better. Jude, well I don’t get the whole Jude thing he does nothing for me what so ever. Who is “dating” these days anyway?
Wow, they are both so good-looking. I loved Atonement so I’m super-excited for Anna Karenina!
I knew for a few years that she will eventually make her way to ‘Anna Karenina’ (I also believe that ‘War and Peace’ are not too far away, she needs to still look quite young to pull that off, so probably within the next 4-5 years).
I was SO happy it was being made, but then found out the director pick, and the excitement abated.
I could not stand ‘Atonement’.
‘Pride and Prejudice’ was horrible – I hated every single minute of it. What pissed me off the most was the HURRIED DIALOG! They tried to cram EVERY important conversation from the book into the movie, but since it could not run 5 hours, they simply had the actors spit out the lines like a fricking machine gun. It robbed the movie of the requisite charm; the wit of the dialogue was lost in the harried nature of the presentation. And the costume and set design were so overwrought to look drab, shabby, POOR, just yuck, they were completely out of place on the landed gentry. I think the director RUINED one of the greatest literary classics (luckily there are many prior versions to feast your eyes on, the BBC series especially) and I was seriously personally offended by his butchering of the story.
I hope, hope, hope ‘Anna Karenina’ is awesome, or I’ll start considering Keira the jinx, and will not watch any more of her classics’ reimaginings. 😉
He looks amazing, what a great suit on a man!
Agree but hate that the jacket and pants are from a different suit. The color and material don’t look good together
She has such a beautiful face, and I love her figure – willowy and natural(!!!)
i’ve got to admit – i’m surprised so many think she has a beautiful face. to me she looks like someone who is suffering from anorexia and malnutrition. i also think she looks like the young lohan sister – ali – who also has this appearance. JMO
I agree, Bella. Her face is like a mystery. I recently watched Last Night and in some of the angles, she looked horrible. But in other shots, she was beautiful. (not to mention she acted circles around Eva Mendes).
THANK YOU! I don’t get her appeal at all ! She’s WAY too skinny for my taste.
Jude looks good, can’t wait to see this movie!
Suits are to men like LBDs are to women: one could never look wrong in them, and they make the wearer look 100x more attractive.
Keira’s dress looks nice but slightly boring. She looks great (makeup) though.
These pictures are very badly lit. The gown in particular comes across flat and washed out.
I had to do some really weird things to my display settings, and then also change the screen angle, but once I got it right, the gown POPPED right up on the screen.
It is breathtakingly beautiful! The ruching all over the silhouette, the stiffened bottom curve, the shear shoulders, the garland collar… And the FLOWERS! Oh, my lord, the flowers are magnificent. That cream color on the off-pink dress looks fabulous! It is also incredibly romantic, sweet and fresh. She looks like a walking rose garden and I feel like there must be a smell of roses and gardenias wafting in the air after her.
I’m looking at Jude, not her! He is so hot, and man, can he wear a vest.
Exactly! Keira who?
I just which he had shaved. 🙁
Keira Knightley looks so much like Lena Headey sometimes. Those two could be sisters.
This movie is totally miscast, but it will be pretty eye candy at least.
The first time you posted the trailer I replayed it 3 times, I was so excited, I just could not wait to see it.
Now, watching it again I couldn’t help but be annoyed by some of Keira’s facial expressions & other minor details that put me off. What gives?
On point, she looks great & there is nothing attractive about Jude Law. He looks & acts like a creep.
Look wise, they’re the Brad & Angie of England!
I always forget how pretty Keira is when she smiles instead of doing that puckery-pout.
OMG I thought that exact same thing.
scrolling through, how pretty she is! then the last pictures with that stupid pout/lip thing. ugh.
I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THEIR PRESS TOUR! Love the cast for this movie, love the producer, love the trailer… I can’t wait. Joe Wright’s P&P is my favorite movie of.all.time. And Atonement–not the same but I really loved it as well.
Kiera looks stunning. This is probably the best I’ve seen Jude look in a while. LOVE overall.
I just watched this trailer, and then the 6:46 min one, from Joe Wright, whose only purpose seemed to be to stem the criticism before it starts.
He goes to great lengths to ensure we all UNDERSTAND that ‘Russian elite was living their lives on a stage – kind of’, and therefore ‘the movie is shot all on a single theatre stage’, and all the locations, rooms, buildings etc. are simply more ‘rooms opening on a stage’.
I think it always a very bad sign when the director feels he has to explain his vision to us beforehand. Is he expecting that we’re too stupid to figure it out? Or is he foreseeing the criticism that will start the moment the movie is released, with absolute hate of the narrative changes, the visual cheap trickstery and the grandiosity of the story squashed and stuffed into a single theater stage.
I absolutely HATE the look and feel of the movie. It seems that he has RUINED another classic for me. What a crying shame!
And what has happened to Keira’s acting? I always had a problem with her portraying of the characters being too modern. It seems that her favorite technique is to spit out the most dialog in the shortest time possible, accompanied by moving her head all around, displaying the angles of her face instead of projecting expressions.
She’s finally reached that frightful place for an actor, where she is totally identical in every single movie, every single role. Where she is not acting, she is just present in the shot, just spewing her lines, just being herself – the modern girl, dropped into the past via costumes and set design, yet always remaining a Keira not a character. Her acting is the very dissonant note in the movie, and the discord it causes may be too much to overcome for the whole rest of the cast, especially when the director seems to be totally on the same page with her, not with the rest.
I’ll still watch this movie when it comes out, but I already know it is a botched job, a disservice to the story, and one of these ‘re-imagining in a new vision’ as Wright says, that should have never happened, and is best forgotten.
She looks just fine as does the trailer
She’s pretty but why is her mouth always open? It’s the same in her movies; it annoys me.
HE LOOKS HOT HOT HOT
And She looks sooo gorgeous!!!!
That Liberty Bell dress is horrible – especially that tacky belt!
Her hair is also a mess – brush it and get a decent cut.
And Stand up straight – pull those shoulders back and stiffen up that spine – you look like a rag doll!
Ughhhhhh make this movie go awaaaay! I’m just going to shut my eyes and pretend that this atrocity never existed. I love Anna Karenina – the book and the 1997 movie with Sophie Marceau and Sean Bean. The acting and casting in that movie was brilliant. But for this latest version, whose idea was to cast the blindingly-annoying Keira Knightley?! And Jude Law as Karenin!? It’s all wrong, wrong, wrong! /end rant
I loved the movie version with Sophie & Sean. I thought I would end up trashing it. Anna Karenina is my favorite book. I am so die hard about it I read it in Russian, French & English. I am “meh” about this casting. Excited about Jude Law though. I think he will be perfect as Alexei. I did like Keira in Doctor Zhivago.
It’s faded Cinderella dreary, intricate details smudge out, almost shapeless, unneeded bulk and fairy whisper fabric.. an amateur designer numbed this to a boring nothingness to show on the red carpet..? She is often so disappointing for all the fashionable perfection Hoo-ha lauded about her! Who always dresses her to disappoint..?
Keira looks stunning. Love the hair/makeup and color of the dress.
Jude is back in top form. Muy guapo.
That dress reminds me of those old bedspreads from the 70’s that have that chenille look. Not liking it at all. The color is flattering on Keira.. Dress ahh no. Sad because she is another stunning young woman and usually dresses better…
They both look great–although I agree, that dress isn’t my favorite, but it is very “her.” I can’t hate when celebs wear what suits them even though it’s not to my taste.
Their stylists are obviously on holiday… The belt spoils the dress and his mismatched outfit is a bit of a ‘train’ wreck. Giggle.
I don’t understand why you all dislike the dress. She looks fab in it. He got ‘unolded’ – thats why Law looks good. No plugs, just grew out the bit of hair he had. You can see how far back it recedes still.
oh jude, oh jude, oh jude. . . i can stare at your face all day! 🙂
With that face I barely noticed what Keira was wearing. So beautiful it’s ridiculous.
She is so pretty ,i really like her movies .
I am surprised, as always, that no one else is bothered by Keira’s jutting jaw. It’s called an underbite (or Popeye jaw) and basic orthodonture should have fixed it when she was a child. It mars her beauty and is very distracting when she talks. Way overrated as a beauty.
Jude Law, now, that’s another story entirely…
Anna K is y favorite book in the world, and I am beyond irritated that they cast Keira Knightly. She looks gorgeous in these pics, but I am still mad.
she looks lovely here, and i cannot wait for the movie. “variety” gave it a good review -yay!
They both look fab. KK’s makeup is lovely. And Jude, well he’s just gorgeous.
I absolutely love that dress, including the belt. Keira is a great actress. Jude looks cute as always. He dresses pretty well.
i love them both and they certainly seem to suit each other like mad!!!!!!!
Well, it’s not my style of dress, but it is lovely nevertheless. I am a fan of soft pink things, and this style totally suits the woman wearing it. Also, I love the belt accent, which adds interest.