Nominated for 5 Golden Globes including Best Motion Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Director - Sean Baker, Best Performance by a Female Actor - Mikey Madison, Best Supporting Performance by a Male Actor - Yura Borisov.
Critics Consensus: With 96% on RT, ANORA is another marvelous chronicle of America's strivers by writer-director Sean Baker and in a star-making role, Mikey Madison's stuns as the film's lead.
Sean Baker's (THE FLORIDA PROJECT) Palme d'Or winner ANORA is an audacious, thrilling, and comedic variation on a modern day Cinderella story. Mikey Madison (ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD) captivates as Ani, a young sex worker from Brooklyn whose life takes an unexpected turn when she meets and impulsively marries Vanya, the impetuous son of a Russian billionaire. However, when Vanya's parents catch wind of the union, they send their henchmen to annul the marriage, setting off a wild chase through the streets of New York.
"I know you won’t believe it’s as good as everyone is saying it is until you hear it from me so here you are: yes, it’s as good as everyone is saying it is." Deborah Ross THE SPECTATOR
"At its core it’s a romantic dramedy that’s gotten a lot of comparisons to Pretty Woman, though it seems even more spiritually akin to Federico Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria." Aisha Ross NPR
"Yet again, Sean Baker nails it. Anora somehow straddles a fine line as the year’s funniest and most heart-wrenching movie." CHICAGO READER
"Sometimes a movie actually earns the old cliché of a “star-making turn,” and I’m here to say that Sean Baker’s “Anora” is this year’s star maker." Alissa Wilkinson NYTPT2H19MR2024-12-13