Anora - Sean Baker

It's currently #1 in the predictions on Gold Derby for picture, director, actress, and original screenplay.

https://www.goldderby.com/odds/combi...5-predictions/

Anora star Mikey Madison at the movie's LA premiere

NEON just announced a limited-edition Anora t-shirt that will be sold exclusively at a NYC pop-up.

Genuinely jelly of anyone who gets one

I want to see this, Neon has been doing so many bangers lately, and apparently Cannes agrees

The merch for the movie is.... pretty wild. (Yes that's actual merch from NEON)

The critical reception and early box-office results point to a very strong contender at the Oscars, similar to Parasite a few years back



https://deadline.com/2024/10/indie-f...me-1236121361/

My best friend really wants to watch this together. I’m very mixed on it. Also hearing very good things, and I do pole dancing professionally, so interested on that level alone at this point, but it also sounds so ridiculously cliché that it makes The Apprentice look profound. Maybe I’m missing something.

I'm trying very hard not to know too much about the movie before I see it, hoping it will be a new spin on some familiar grounds...

Same — I think it’s best to always know as little as possible.

Awwwwww

Sean Baker loves working with 35mm prints - so glad he'll be able to get at least a few 35mm prints of Anora out there!

As the first American film to win a Palm D'or since 2011, expectations are understandably high for Sean Baker's Anora.

Anora more than delivers, achieving the trickiest of cinematic achievements: here is a movie that plays out like a twisted fairy tale that, somehow, rings true.

Mikey Madison delivers one of the absolute greatest performances in any recent Oscar-contender in the title role, and it will definitely be a darn shame if she doesn't get the prize, because she absolutely deserves it.

The character Madison creates here absolutely bursts with vitality, seeming at total ease in scenes that involve both pole-dancing and a much more complicated dance - the dance of romantic entanglements. She has also mastered the art of sounding like a Brooklyn girl who can barely get by with her broken Russian, in a way that gives you hope she could be the next Meryl Streep.

She is surrounded by a magnificent supporting cast of Russian actors, all of whom I would love to see in more movies, should they be able to continue working for American directors.

Contemporary American cinema just doesn't get much better than Anora.

I saw this last night and I thought it was very good. I didn't really have any expectations going in - I hadn't been completely sold on Sean Baker based on his previous films and Palm D'Or winners can be hot or miss. It's 2 hours and nineteen minutes but it doesn't feel too long, it just feels unhurried. It's a mix of drama and humour that can be difficult to pull off but is executed brilliantly. The main and supporting characters (with the possible exception of Vanya's parents) are all well-drawn and well-rounded. It's well made, it's entertaining and (in what admittedly has so far not been a particularly inspiring year for films) one of the best films I've seen so far this year.

So 5/5??

Yes!

Anora is showing near me. I'm thinking of seeing this tonight.

Do it. I'm already thinking about going for a second viewing.

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HEI guys.

I have plans to watch it again also.

I heard our local movie critics talk about this last Friday. It will probably be a film I will skip.