A young stripper impulsively marries the son of a Russian Oligarch, and when his family finds out, an odyssey to get the marriage annulled begins.
Great film with unprecedented hype. I was waiting for the Oscars to write about it, and, unfortunately, I was right. NEON knows what they want from their films. It is a solid American production and distribution company, and, like A24, its films break the rules occasionally. Anora is a pleasant and entertaining watch with some performances that stand out, as well as some editing and photography techniques. Writer, director, casting director, editor, and producer Sean Baker deserves much praise for his work, as he put his heart and soul into it to make everything work. Mikey Madison deserves all the praise under the sun as she too worked really, really hard for her role.
The marketing, though, is what made the film famous. To get 150 wins and 272 nominations, of which five Oscars are not something one sees every day in the film industry. Especially when you have to compete against giants, both in terms of budget and talent. Here is a representative example: Yura Borisov’s character, Igor, is a dark horse and very much relatable to humble people who have skills but rub them in your face. Borisov does a brilliant job portraying that character, but the performance is not even near the level of performances that have competed against the statuette over the decades.
Anora‘s reputation surpassed The Green Book‘s (2018) for the worst film we’ve seen at the Oscars recently, making people lose even more faith in the Academy. Statements by members of the Academy who claimed that they don’t watch whole films when they are over two hours long just made things worse.
Anora is not to be blamed, though. If you had heard nothing about it and sat down to watch it, you would thoroughly enjoy it. Now that you have heard so much and raised your expectations to the extreme, it will not be the same. Politics, by now, is deeply rooted in the arts, and rightfully, people despise what Hollywood has become—a dishevelled existence of a glorious past.
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