19/23
Chronology
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch
When news reaches Russia, her fairy tale is threatened when his parents leave for New York to annul the marriage. IMDb editor Arno Kazarian offers quick thoughts on 12 films he screened at the 2024 New York Film Festival, including Anora and the dangerous and oddly erotic Misericordia. At the Cannes Film Festival press conference, Mikey Madison said that director Sean Baker would act out different sexual positions with his wife, producer Samantha Quan, to demonstrate to the actors what he wanted them to do. Igor: PLEASE!
Referenced in Close-Up: Anora (2024)
STOP! SCREAMING!. I’m not really familiar with Sean Baker as a director. I know he directed a movie called “Red Rocket” and another called “The Florida Project” with Willem Dafoe, but I haven’t seen either.
I loved this movie
This year he won the Palme d’Or for best film at the Cannes Film Festival for his new film «Anora». So I was really looking forward to seeing it. I just saw it and I was not disappointed. Mikey Madison plays the title role in «Anora», who is a stripper and lap dancer in New York City who meets a rich young Russian man who pays her for sex and likes her so much that he pays her to spend a week with him.
Then he proposes to her
They go to Las Vegas and get married. Then his parents find out that he got married and try to annul the marriage. The story is pretty simple, but the movie is very entertaining from start to finish and the audience I saw it with found it very funny and laughed a lot. The movie is very emotionally engaging and I really started to care about the character Anora played by Mikey Madison.
This movie is excellent
She gives the best performance of the year and I would really like to see her nominated for an Oscar for best actress next year. Sean Baker is definitely a director to watch 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. Check out our list of exciting new films from this year’s film festivals, including Venice, TIFF, the New York Film Festival, and more.