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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.. IMDb Editor Arno Kazarian offers up quick takes on 12 movies he screened at the 2024 New York Film Festival, including Anora and the dangerous, curiously erotic Misericordia.. 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!.

So I was looking forward to seeing it very much

I am not really familiar with Sean Baker as a director. 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".

They go to Las Vegas and get married

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. 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.

This film is excellent

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. See the full lineup for the 62nd New York Film Festival this Fall.