49/12

in Hollywood and Scream

Scenario

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

In a Vegas scene, a character refers to "McCarran Airport." While the international airport in Las Vegas had been known as McCarran International Airport for many decades, its name was changed to Harry Reid International Airport in late 2021.. Igor: PLEASE! STOP!

Referenced in Close-Up: Anora (2024)

SCREAMING!. I had a ball watching Anora, a massively funny film with overshoots of gender and profession biases, that I almost ignored the point that Sean Baker was trying to make. Ani decides to marry Ivan, son of an oligarch, after spending a few days with him as an escort.

There's also tension in the film that struggles to crescendo and that's where Baker blends his messages not making them too obvious

As expected, things take an ugly turn but Sean Baker manages to narrate all of it in a manner that induces laughter so frequently you almost wonder if the Russians aren't that bad. The entire cast is phenomenal here so I won't just give props to Mikey Madison who just seems to have a lot more screen space. A very funny and sad film at the same time.(Watched at its India premiere as closing film at the 2024 MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.).

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