Anora (2024)

Directed by Sean Baker, Anora stars Mikey Madison as Ani, a Brooklyn sex worker whose impulsive marriage to the son of a Russian oligarch pulls her into a clash with money, power and family control. Mark Eydelshteyn, Yura Borisov and Karren Karagulian co-star in a fast-moving comedy-drama with romance, class tension and criminal pressure around the edges. The film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and later won five Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress for Mikey Madison.

Criterion Collection

Contemporary cinema’s foremost chronicler of American dreamers and schemers hustling on the margins of capitalist promise, Sean Baker, reaches new heights of mastery with this audacious anti–Cinderella story—a whirlwind neorealist screwball comedy with an aching heart. In an electric, star-is-born performance, Mikey Madison soars as Anora, an enterprising, ferociously foulmouthed Brooklyn erotic dancer and sex worker whose Prince Not-So-Charming comes along in the form of a Russian oligarch’s wild-child son (Mark Eydelshteyn). This is the beginning of a fractured fairy tale—also featuring standout performances from Karren Karagulian, Yura Borisov, and Vache Tovmasyan—that turns the cruel realities of class inside out. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, Anora confirms Baker as one of our preeminent auteurs.

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A young escort from Brooklyn meets and impulsively marries the son of a Russian oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairy tale is threatened as his parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.