Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner Anora is an audacious, thrilling, and comedic variation on a modern day Cinderella story.
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
"There are few filmmakers as open-hearted, as stone-soup inventive, as Baker is. In movies like Tangerine and The Florida Project, he’s always shown a knack for doing a lot with a little. But with Anora, so playful yet so emotionally fine-grained, he maybe does the most. It's his best movie yet." Stephanie Zacharek, Time
★★★★★ Financial Times
★★★★★ The Telegraph
On awarding the Palme d’Or to Anora, Cannes jury president Greta Gerwig said:
“It was something we collectively felt we were transported by, we were moved by. It felt both new and in conversation with older forms of cinema. There was something about it that reminded us of the classic structures of Ernst Lubitsch and Howard Hawks. And it did something completely truthful and unexpected.”
Six Oscar nominations including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress (Mikey Madison)
Seven BAFTA nominations including Best Film