Sean Baker is an American filmmaker who's best known for directing independent films about the lives of marginalized people. His latest film, Anora, won this year's Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
In an interview with Q’s Tom Power, the director discusses his Palme d'Or-winning film, which follows a sex worker who falls into a whirlwind romance with the son of a Russian billionaire.Sean Baker is an American filmmaker who's best known for directing independent films about the lives of marginalized people. His latest film, Anora, won this year's Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
The film follows an erotic dancer named Anora who quits her job after falling into a whirlwind romance with Vanya, the wealthy son of a Russian oligarch. But her fairytale ending is threatened after news of their shotgun wedding reaches Vanya's parents."I read her memoir and immediately thought, 'OK, so this memoir speaks closest to my character that I was starting to develop, the character of Ani,'" Baker tells's Tom Power in an interview.
"It doesn't apply just to sex work," he says. "I think it applies to any subject matter that I'm covering, especially when it comes to a lifestyle or livelihood that I am not a part of.… I would like to avoid caricatures or cartoonish takes on individuals in my films." Baker also adds that he doesn't "sanctify" his characters and turn them into saints. "That's the biggest thing for me," he says. "If I'm watching a character and that character doesn't have any flaws and doesn't make mistakes and sometimes doesn't act immaturely, I don't see myself in that character. And I want to see myself in characters in order for me to really connect with them and root for them.".
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