A modern-dress adaptation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, with John Gilbert as Vronsky. "A beautifully fluid production by Edmund Goulding with outstanding settings and costuming, and some of cinematographer William Daniels' most breathtaking images: Garbo leading the dance at the ball (with a swirling overhead camera), the sensual episodes with the child and at the shrine, and the final, brief, shattering scene at the station." (National Film Theatre)