44/20
in Hollywood and Scream
Chronology
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.. Mikey Madison reflects on the roles that shaped her path to Anora, from "Better Things" to Once Upon a Time… At the Cannes Film Festival press conference, Mikey Madison said that director Sean Baker would act out different sex positions with his wife, producer Samantha Quan, to demonstrate to the actors what he wanted them to do..
Referenced in Close-Up: Anora (2024)
Igor: PLEASE! STOP! SCREAMING!. I am not really familiar with Sean Baker as a director.
So I was looking forward to seeing it very much
I know he directed a film called "Red Rocket" and another one called "The Florida Project" with Willem Dafoe but I have not seen either of them. This year he won the Palm D'or for the best film at the Cannes Film Festival for his new film "Anora". I just saw it and I was not disappointed.I loved this movie. Mikey Madison plays the title role of "Anora" who is a stripper and lap dancer in New York City who meets a rich Russian young man who pays her for sex and likes her so much that he pays her to spend a week with him.Then he asks her to marry him.
This film is excellent
They go to Las Vegas and get married. Then his parents find out that he got married and try to get the marriage annulled.The story is pretty simple but the film is very entertaining from beginning to end and the audience I saw it with found it very funny and laughed a lot.The film is very emotionally involving and I really came to care about the character of Anora played by Mikey Madison. She gives the best performance of the year and I would really like to see her nominated for the 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 movie heaven.