The director of Anora, Sean Baker, talks to The Verge about representing sex work onscreen and how sticking the landing of a film means thinking about it first.
Sean Baker’s film Anora won the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival — the latest in the director’s acclaimed narratives about sex workers that include Tangerine, The Florida Project, and Red Rocket. But Anora might be his most inviting, accessible work yet. Anora — or Ani, as she prefers — is a lap dancer at a gentlemen’s club who finds a way out of sex work after she meets the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch named Vanya.
My subversive tactic here is to really get audiences to think of sex work in a different way, to help for those who do see it with that eye of stigma, to chip away at that. Anora feels as much like a big-budget film to me as it does kind of this “Fuck you, watch me” kind of film. How did you pull that off? I had a slightly bigger budget than The Florida Project.
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