Anora (2024)
Director: Sean Baker Run Time: 139 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2024
Starring: Karren Karagulian, Mark Eydelshteyn, Mikey Madison, Vache Tovmasyan, Yuriy Borisov
Country: United States
Language: English
About the film:
Winner Palme d’Or, 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
About the filmmaker:
Producer, writer, director, and cinematographer Sean Baker has a knack for telling the intimate stories of outsiders. After studying film at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Baker first worked with his longtime producing partner Shih-Ching Tsou on the 2004 feature film Take Out exploring a Chinese immigrant’s struggles. His follow-up features earned critical acclaim—Prince of Broadway won Best American Independent Feature Film at CIFF 2009, Starlet won a Film Independent Spirit Award in 2012, Tangerine was nominated for an Audience Award at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, and The Florida Project premiered at Cannes in 2017. Baker’s last feature, Red Rocket (2021), premiered in competition for the Palme d’Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival; his latest, Anora (2024), took home the top prize in 2024. Baker is also the creator, writer and director of the comedy-drama series Greg the Bunny.
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