Sean Baker is formally returning to Cannes together with his new rom-com “Anora.”
Whereas the plot particulars stay underneath wraps, the characteristic is billed as an journey rom-com, with the primary look picture displaying a neon-lit membership scene. Baker writes and directs the characteristic, which can debut on the 2024 Cannes Movie Pageant.
The solid contains Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Yura Borisov, Karen Karagulian, and Vache Tovmasyan. Drew Daniels served as director of pictures and shot the characteristic on 35mm movie. The characteristic was filmed in Brooklyn and will probably be launched by Neon later this yr.
“Making an impartial movie is rarely simple irrespective of what number of you will have underneath your belt!” Baker mentioned in a 2023 press assertion (through Selection). “I really feel so lucky to have been given the assets and assist to meet my imaginative and prescient in an uncompromised means. Thanks to my collaborators together with Glen Basner and the FilmNation crew, my unimaginable solid, crew and producers, and to town of New York for offering a wealthy cinematic backdrop for our story. I look ahead to sharing this with filmgoers around the globe subsequent yr.”
“Anora” is Baker’s newest movie to debut at Cannes, following 2021’s “Crimson Rocket” and 2017’s “The Florida Undertaking.” “Anora” is Baker’s eighth movie writing and directing. Baker additionally produces “Anora” together with
Alex Coco and Samantha Quan.
Along with “Anora,” the Cannes lineup contains Mohammad Rasoulof’s return to the pageant with “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” Andrea Arnold’s buzzy “Hen” starring Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski, and Oliver Stone’s documentary “Lula” concerning the thrice-elected Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Josh Mond’s sophomore characteristic “It Doesn’t Matter” additionally debuted a primary search for the Cannes adjoining program ACID, run by France’s Affiliation for the Diffusion of Impartial Cinema (ACID). ACID takes place parallel to the Cannes Movie Pageant. “It Doesn’t Matter” stars Christopher Abbott and Jay Will and facilities round a redemptive relationship between a misplaced man from Staten Island and a younger filmmaker. “It Doesn’t Matter” is author/director Mond’s first film since his breakout Sundance 2015 directorial debut “James White,” which additionally starred Abbott. Along with directing, Mond beforehand produced Sean Durkin’s “Martha Marcy Might Marlene” and Antonio Campos’ “Simon Killer.”