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I even tried to watch the version with Audrey Hepburn, but it was too slow. I loved Tolstoys Anna Karenina, but just could never finish the book War and Peace. Now that I have seen this BBC version, I plan to read the book. The DVD was excellent, with realistic characters (for instance, Pierre looks the way he is supposed to, dumpy and plain). The modern touches make this very entertaining, I loved it.
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Exquisite set design, acting and tone. The cinematography is the only thing that seems unmotivated, but it's still so pretty! Lily James will leave you breathless. Natasha is the best character in literature in my opinion, so maybe I'm a bit biased, but it's exactly how I imagine Natasha. And Paul Dano... you'll fall in love. Such amazing development of Pierre!
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War and Peace is one of the great novels in world literature. The BBC mini series is good, but not great. The scenery of the mini series is excellent - Russia, Latvia,etc. The actors are very English so you really think you are watching an English movie, not a Russian one. Also it was hard to keep some of the characters straight - a few more mentions of their names/relationships would have helped. But by all means buy it, way better than most of the competition.
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BBC's greatest entertainment achievement. The battle scenes are amazing; ten times better than 1975 W&P. Do not think of watching the second disk without a full box of tissues. I can't count on two hands the number of touching scenes. Excellent screenplay joined with fine acting make a film I see perhaps twice a year.
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had to read the book in high school hated it ow I want to read the book to see how much this amazing mini series compares. I laughed I cried I was lost in the story
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