Ua comedy, a film «proudly shot like American films of the 70s» in the words of director Sean Baker. The story of one stripteaseuse of Brooklyn (Mikey Madison, seen in the series Better Things) who meets the scion of a Russian oligarch, Ivan (Mark Eidelstein), is for Baker (who had already filmed on a real sex worker Red Rocket, presented at Cannes in 2021) the opportunity to take care of that category of workers that it represents today the definitive embodiment of the working class in the 21st century.
Anora – Ani as she prefers to be called, to make people forget their Uzbek origins – however, she quickly understands that despite the hastily celebrated wedding in Las Vegas, perhaps Ivan will never represent a goose that lays golden eggs for her.
His parents, furious, do not approve of the union and immediately send a trusted manthe Armenian Toros (Karren Karagulian) and two reinforcements (one is Yuriy Borisov, the passenger of the Compartment no. 6 by Juho Kuosmanen), to cancel the wedding.
Cannes Film Festival 2024: the film Anora by Sean Baker won the Palme d’Or
The relationship between Ani and Ivan, two young contemporary men, in Baker’s view, is told in purely transactional terms, they are two creatures who inhabit a world regulated by the laws of the market and the commodity that is listed on their exchange is the body.
Mikey Madison in “Anora”.
The economic mutation of desire
Anora this is what he talks about: the economic mutation of desire, Anora is indeed a comedy, but it is an anti-romantic comedy, with Prince Charming on the run and the maiden finally joined by the three bad guys in pursuit between Brooklyn, Coney Island, Manhattan. In the end it’s them, the hitmen, the girl’s true class associates. If love hasn’t been born, perhaps an alliance will be born.
Cannes 2024: the Palmares, who won, all the awards
Palme d’Or: Anora by Sam Baker
Grand Prix: All We Imagine as Light by Payal Kapadia
Director: Miguel Gomes Grand Tour
Best Actor: Jesse Plemons, Kinds of Kindness
Karla-Sofia Gascon in Emilia Perez.
Best Actresses: The female cast of Emilia Pérez: Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, Karla Sofía Gascón
Jury Prize: Emilia Pérez
Special Award (Prix Spécial): Mohammad Rasoulof, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Film script: Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Golden Chamber: Armand by Halfdan Ullman Tondel
L’Oeil d’Or, for best documentary: Ernest Cole: Lost and Found And The Brink of Dreams
Queer Palm: Three Kilometers to the End of the World
Dog Palms: Kodi
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