It simply needed to be, didn’t it.
U.S. distributor Neon solely had two motion pictures within the Competitors: Anora and The Seed of the Sacred Fig. Neither might have fared any higher with the critics and each received prizes tonight.
It was Sean Baker’s Anora that stormed to the highest prize on the Riviera, making it a exceptional 5 Palme d’Or wins in a row for Tom Quinn’s outfit Neon.
“The way forward for cinema is the place it began: in a movie show,” stated Baker, accepting his Palme d’Or. You may watch the acceptance speech under.
Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall received final 12 months, following the US distributor’s earlier acquisitions Triangle Of Disappointment, Titane and Parasite.
New York-set romantic dramedy Anora is a few stripper from Brooklyn who transforms into a contemporary Cinderella when she meets the son of a Russian oligarch.
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 solid additionally contains Mark Eydelshteyn, Karren Karagulian and Vache Tovmasyan.
Remarkably, earlier than it screened at this 12 months’s Cannes Movie Competition a few well-placed business we spoke to weren’t excessive on Anora‘s possibilities of profitable the Palme d’Or, as soon as once more proving the timeless axiom: “No one is aware of something”.
Besides Neon with regards to Cannes, after all.