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Chronology
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch
IMDb Editor Arno Kazarian offers up quick takes on 12 movies he screened at the 2024 New York Film Festival, including Anora and the dangerous, curiously erotic Misericordia.. At the Cannes Film Festival press conference, 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..
Referenced in Close-Up: Anora (2024)
I know making a film takes a lot of effort and writing a review is a matter of a couple of minutes. Anyway, I wanted to write down my thoughts.
And I have seen a few others
I was looking forward to seeing this movie, I liked another Sean Baker's movie "Project Florida". "Anora" has a nice atmosphere, the actors are doing their job well but I found the humor repetitive as well as some scenes which I'd personally cut.
The film is too long for this story
Also, the Russians seemed caricature to me, especially the evil mother.The first part is not bad but the second starting with the Armenians invading "the mansion" was funny at first but then turned boring to me. The last scenes with Yura Borisov added depth to the characters and I started feeling at least something towards them.Overall, it's not a bad film but not something I would love to rewatch.
