Sean Baker returned to the Cannes Movie Pageant on Tuesday with Anora, his New York-set romantic dramedy a couple of stripper from Brooklyn who transforms into a contemporary Cinderella when she meets the son of a Russian oligarch.
The movie, enjoying within the official competitors three years after Baker’s success in Cannes with the Simon Rex-starring Pink Rocket, scored an 10-minute ovation after the mid-afternoon world premiere screening wrapped on the Palais de Festivals.
The pic facilities on Anora, who meets, falls in love with and marries the son of a Russian oligarch. Problems most actually come up when his mother and father discover out and attempt to get the wedding annulled.
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Higher Issues and Scream actress Mikey Madison performs the eponymous Anora alongside Yuriy Borisov, who beforehand appeared in Cannes pics Petrov’s Flu and Compartment No.6 each in 2021. The forged additionally contains Mark Eydelshteyn, Karren Karagulian and Vache Tovmasyan.
Madison and Borisov’s performances appeared to spark essentially the most response from the afternoon crowd on the Palais right this moment.
Neon, which has been busy throughout this 12 months’s Cannes market, acquired North American rights to Anora again in November, aiming it for a U.S. launch someday this 12 months.
FilmNation Leisure is procuring worldwide rights in Cannes.