30/10
in Hollywood and Scream
Story
Anora, a young Brooklyn sex worker, meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. After word reaches Russia, her fairy tale is threatened when his parents travel to New York to annul the marriage. Mikey Madison reflects on the roles that shaped his path to Better Things’ Anora; at Once Upon a Time… At the Cannes Film Festival press conference, Mikey Madison said that director Sean Baker and his wife, producer Samantha Kwan, perform different sex positions to show the actors what they want. Do…
Mentioned in Close-Up: Anora (2024)
Igor: Please! Stop it! Scream! I am not very 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 any of them.
I liked this movie
This year he won the Palm D' for best film at the Cannes Film Festival for his new film “Anora”. So I looked forward to seeing it. I saw it and was not disappointed. Mikey Madison plays “Anora”; She 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. He then asks her to marry him.
They moved to Las Vegas and got married
Then his parents find out that he is married and try to annul the marriage. The story is quite simple, but the film is very entertaining from start to finish, and the audience I watched it with found it very funny and laughed a lot. The film is very emotionally involving and I really cared about the character of Anora played by Mike Maddison. She gives the best performance of the year and I would love to see her nominated for the best actress Oscar next year. Sean Baker is definitely a director to watch and I can’t wait to see what he does next.
This movie is awesome
Director Sean Baker and actress Mikey Madison are definitely a match made in movie heaven. Check out the full lineup at the 62nd New York Film Festival.
