Sean Baker‘s “Anora” is betting large with a fall launch date.
The characteristic, which received the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2024, will probably be launched October 18 from Neon, IndieWire can affirm. The restricted launch window makes “Anora” primed for the autumn pageant circuit, with doable inclusions at Telluride, TIFF, and NYFF, which concludes proper earlier than “Anora” will hit theaters.
“Anora” stars “As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood” breakout Mikey Madison as an unique dancer and intercourse employee who marries the son of a Russian oligarch (Mark Eydelshteyn). Author/director Baker beforehand helmed Oscar-nominated movie “The Florida Mission,” groundbreaking iPhone film “Tangerine,” and Simon Rex’s career-best “Purple Rocket.”
The discharge of “Anora” on October 18 proves that Neon has excessive hopes for the Palme d’Or winner. Neon has launched a trio of Palme d’Or winners earlier than, all in October and all happening to be Oscar-nominated.
Neon launched “Parasite” on October 11 again in 2019; the Korean characteristic went on to make historical past on the Academy Awards by successful Finest Image. “Triangle of Disappointment” was out October 7 in 2022, with 2023 Oscar-winning characteristic “Anatomy of a Fall” launched by Neon October 13. IndieWire’s Anne Thompson predicted the “Anora” Oscar possibilities in Cannes awards protection.
IndieWire critic David Ehrlich deemed “Anora” extra “Uncut Gems” than “Fairly Girl,” writing, “Splenetically hilarious for greater than two hours earlier than actuality catches up with it within the movie’s unforgettable remaining scene, ‘Anora’ has subsequent to nothing to do with romance, and virtually every part to do with the sort of working-class heartache {that a} fashionable Hollywood studio would by no means even strive to get proper.”
Ehrlich praised each Madison and Eydelshteyn’s respective performances within the breakout roles.
“Baker’s films stay and die on the genius of their casting; not simply due to the individuals he’s capable of finding, but in addition due to the characters he’s courageous sufficient to search around for within the first place,” Ehrlich wrote. “Performed to entitled perfection by Mark Eydelshteyn, Ivan has a sure Timothée Chalamet-like attraction, however we all know from the second we meet him that he isn’t able to being anybody’s prince in shining armor. … It’s a heartache that Mikey Madison’s towering lead efficiency permits to cover in plain sight, even — or maybe particularly — when she isn’t carrying something that may assist to disguise it, and her bare physique transforms right into a double blind that invitations she and Ivan to share in numerous sides of the identical fantasy.”
“Anora” was the primary American movie to win the Palme d’Or in additional than a decade, since Terrence Malick’s “Tree of Life” in 2011.
Learn the total IndieWire evaluate for “Anora” right here.
Selection first reported the information of the “Anora” launch date.