Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes this spring, Anora is a once-in-a-career triumph for Baker
As the titular character in Sean Baker's Anora, Mikey Madison has a profound breakthrough in the role, a complicated and delicate character to inhabit., Baker has used the backdrop of sex work to trace the sometimes quiet and distant, sometimes extremely loud and incredibly up-close lives of those trying to find their place within society’s margins.
One night – and it typically only takes just one night – Ani’s life changes forever when she’s asked by her club’s manager to entertain Ivan , a cash-flashing cad who is looking for someone who he can flirt with in his native Russian tongue. Ani being an Uzbek-American who understands, but cannot exactly talk back, in Russian, takes the gig eagerly.
This being reality – or Baker’s sometimes tilted-head version of reality – things go sour quickly. Ivan’s minders, a collection of rather ineffective goons led by the constantly flustered Toros , get word of the elopement and set about convincing/threatening Ani to annul the proceedings, lest she suddenly be able to lay claim to Ivan’s fortune and risk ruin to the family name.
And just as many of Baker’s former leads have discovered, it pays to play in his low-budget endurance tests. While hardly a newcomer – she was a regular on the FX seriesalongside now-red-hot stars Sydney Sweeney and Margaret Qualley – Madison breaks through as Ani/Anora in a profound way. As sharp and dangerous as broken glass, but with the metaphorical shards also revealing a natural fragility, Anora is a complicated and delicate character to inhabit.
While no one in the cast could possibly match Madison, Baker sure gives his actors enough space to at least try. While Eydelshteyn comes close as the reigning king of useless nepo-babies, it is Karagulian who comes closest to stealing the show with grand-theft auto flair.
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