About Anora
| Title: | Anora |
|---|---|
| Original Title: | Anora |
| Plot: | 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 his parents set out to get the marriage annulled. |
| Cast: | Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Yura Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Luna Sofía Miranda |
| Director: | Sean Baker |
| Cinematography: | Drew Daniels |
| Editor: | Sean Baker |
Anora
Tatsam Mukherjee
The Wire
Reimagination of 'Pretty Woman' With Some Twists
Indie director Sean Baker’s latest has a firm grip on the audience’s emotions.
A lot of the splendour in Sean Baker’s Anora lies in its treatment – where we might be shown one thing, but deliberately made to feel something else. For example, the film opens with a discomfiting panning shot featuring barely-clothed exotic dancers performing with neon lights around them. However, Baker scores this scene with a loud, winsome techno song taking what is a distressing visual of young women forced to work a job that fetishises them, and drains the self-pity out of it.