32/38
Scenario
Anora, a young prostitute from Brooklyn, impulsively meets and marries the son of an oligarch
When word reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened when his parents travel to New York to have the marriage annulled.. IMDb editor Arno Kazarian offers quick reviews of 12 films he screened at the 2024 New York Film Festival, including Anora and the dangerous and curiously erotic Mercy.. At the Cannes Film Festival press conference, Mikey Madison said that director Sean Baker would perform different sexual positions with his wife, producer Samantha Quan, to demonstrate to the actors what he wanted them to do.. In a Las Vegas scene, a character refers to „McCarran Airport.“ While Las Vegas International Airport was known as McCarran International Airport for many decades, its name was changed to Harry Reid International Airport in late 2021..
Quoted in Close-Up: Anora (2024)
Igor: PLEASE! ENOUGH! SCREAM!. I’m not very familiar with Sean Baker as a director.
I loved this movie
I know he directed a movie called „Red Rocket“ and another movie called „The Florida Project“ with Willem Dafoe, but I haven’t seen either of them. He won the Palme d’Or for Best Film at the Cannes Film Festival this year for his new movie „Anora.“ So I was really looking forward to seeing it. I just saw it and I wasn’t disappointed. Mikey Madison plays the lead role of „Anora,“ a stripper and lap dancer from New York City who meets a rich young Russian man who pays her for sex and she likes it so much that he pays her to spend a week with him.
He then asks her to marry him
They go to Las Vegas and get married. Then her parents find out he got married and try to get the marriage annulled. The story is pretty simple but the movie is very funny from start to finish and the audience I saw it with thought it was very funny and laughed a lot. The film is very emotionally engaging and I really grew fond of the character of Anora played by Mikey Madison.
This film is excellent
She gives the best performance of the year and I would love to see her nominated for an Oscar for best actress next year. Sean Baker is definitely a director to keep an eye on and I can’t wait to see what he does next. Director Sean Baker and actress Mikey Madison are definitely a match made in cinematic heaven.