in Hollywood and Scream
Tale
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Mikey Madison reflects on the roles that shaped her path to Anora, from "Better Things" to Once Upon a Time…
Referenced in Close-Up: Anora (2024)
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.. It's hard to watch movies where main characters make stupid, bad decisions.
A sex worker would IMMEDIATELY know this guy is trouble
In this one, a young stripper falls for a rich Russian kid who is clearly, CLEARLY not who he seems. Yet the entire story hinges on her devotion to this obvious grifter.
The movie has a lot of great energy and the performances are never less than fully committed
But the picture itself feels flimsy and inconsequential, the gritty realism of the film's style consistently undercut by the improbable "movie logic" of the plot. Also, the big "twist" is telegraphed very early on – then when it arrives, the writer/director does absolutely nothing with it..