Mikey Madison is an Oscar shoo-in with her bristlingly real performance as a strip-club dancer
I wish I could explain why Anora is so good — what nudges it from fun into a future classic. But to do that, I’d need to tell you how it ends. Instead, let me recommend you reach the last scene for yourself, with a promise of genuine grandeur. Then we can rewind instead to the opening of Sean Baker’s frantic anti-Cinderella story. The setting is a strip club in New York’s Russian enclave Brighton Beach.
It makes no difference to Ani, who still takes the cash, and grows fond of his company. Baker is also frank about sex itself, though the movie’s scenes of it are mostly there to show the two slipping at speed into something that, between bed, spending sprees and being young, can feel like love. And then — marriage. Most fairy tales end here. In Anora, once word gets back to the groom’s Moscow family, it cues a manic attempt to break up the couple.
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