After years of toiling away in the indie underground, Sean Baker finally has his Oscar(s). When Anora premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last year it immediately shot to the top of the list of best picture contenders when it took home the Palme d’Or, and while the Academy Awards were still many months – and many high profile festivals – away, the film managed to maintain that buzz as it and Baker spent the winter months of 2024 collecting trophies from every ceremony possible. The story of Anora (Mikey Madison), a sex worker who finds herself maritally entwined with a bratty Russian mob scion, the film is a breathlessly paced Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride of unpredictable/totally predictable consequences of fucking with Russian organized crime....
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