Anora
Short description
Anora is a Brooklyn sex worker, the daughter of Uzbek immigrants, who speaks enough Russian that her employer assigns her to Russian-speaking clients. She meets Ivan, the reckless son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, and the two marry on impulse in Las Vegas. When word of the wedding reaches Moscow, Ivan's parents fly to New York determined to have the marriage annulled, and the life Anora had begun to imagine for herself is suddenly under threat.
Sean Baker wrote, directed and produced the film, which followed Red Rocket in his filmography. Mikey Madison plays Ani, with Mark Eydelshteyn as Ivan, Yuriy Borisov as Igor, Karren Karagulian as Toros and Vache Tovmasyan as Garnik heading a credited cast of 34.
Made for about 6 million dollars, the film went on to earn roughly 56 million worldwide, a return that made it a significant commercial success relative to its cost. On TMDB it holds a rating of 7.1 out of 10 from around 3,460 votes, indicating a generally favourable but not ecstatic audience response. The film runs 139 minutes and mixes comedy, drama and romance.
What's left behind the scenes
- The fourth film to receive both the highest award of the Cannes Film Festival (the Palme d'Or) and the Academy Award for Best Picture. The first was Billy Wilder's 'The Lost Weekend' (1945), which won the Grand Prix (the top prize at the time) in Cannes, as the Palme d'Or was first awarded in 1955. The second was Delbert Mann's 'Marty' (1955). The third was Bong Joon-ho's 'Parasite' (2019).
- The word 'fuck' and its derivatives are spoken 479 times in the movie.
- Director, screenwriter, and producer Sean Baker saw Yura Borisov in the film 'Compartment No. 6' and decided he absolutely had to work with him.
- According to Sean Baker, he became a fan of Mikey Madison after seeing her performance in 'Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood'. At the very start of working on 'Anora', he saw Madison in the horror film 'Scream' and immediately decided to offer her the lead role.
- The scene in which the characters enter the Tatiana Grill restaurant on Brighton Beach and interact with the patrons was improvised and was filmed without permission, without warning anyone.
- Maika Monroe admitted that to convincingly portray a nervous breakdown in the final scene, she had to listen to an old voice message once sent to her by her father. Moreover, this was done in the presence of the entire film crew, which left the actress in an even more distressed state.
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