Oscars Week: Anora 18
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Winner of Best Picture, Director, Actress, Screenplay and Editing at the 2025 Oscars.
Baker (Florida Project, Red Rocket) presents a modern-day Cinderella story about Ani, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, meeting Vanya, a spoiled son of a Russian oligarch, who offers her a glamorous new life of possibility and incredible wealth. Ani’s wild ride and fairytale is soon threatened when news of their whirlwind marriage gets back to Russia, resulting in Vanya’s parents flying to New York to manage the situation.
Both wildly entertaining and heartbreaking, Anora takes audiences on a freewheeling, rambunctious adventure that escalates to dizzying levels. Drawing comparisons to Pretty Woman, it constantly plays with genre and audience expectations. But what shines through most, as in all his films, is Baker’s love for and unwillingness to judge his characters.
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- Director
- Sean Baker
- Year
- 2024
- Duration
- 2 hours 19 minutes
- Language
- English + Russian, Armenian with English Subtitles
- Cast
- Mark Eydelshteyn, Mikey Madison, Yura Borisov
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