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American Director Sean Baker’s “Anora,” about an exotic dancer from Brooklyn who falls in love with the son of a Russian oligarch, won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival Saturday, earning the covetedThe film, which has a 96% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 27 critics’ reviews, tells the story of stripper Anora is threatened when his Russian oligarch parents learn of the arrangement and travel to New York to force an annulment.
Other big winners at this year’s festival included Portuguese director Miguel Gomes, who won best director for “Grand Tour,” American actor Jesse Plemons for his role in “Kinds of Kindness,” and the whole female cast of “Emilia Perez,” including Adriana Paz, Zoe Saldana, Karla Sofia Gascon and Selena Gomez who collectively wonThe Cannes jury awarded a special prize to “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” a film made by Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, who wasto eight years in prison in Iran due to...
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