Anora (2024)Movies

Title: Anora (2024)

Director: Sean Baker 👨🏼🇺🇸

Writer: Sean Baker 👨🏼🇺🇸

Reviewed by Weiting 👩🏻🇨🇳🇺🇸

Technical: 4.25/5

As part of New York Film Festival's main slate, Anora explores writer-director Sean Baker's recurring subject of sex workers. Evolving from the simple settings of smartphone-shot Tangerine (2015) and Florida Project (2017), Baker launches into screwball thrills and tragicomedy.

Spellbinding breakout star Mikey Madison plays Ani/Anora, a savvy 23-year-old Uzbek American sex worker. Minutes into the story, she falls in lust with her client Ivan Zakharov (Mark Eidelshtein), the 21-year-old son of a Russian oligarch. What starts out between them as transactional...