Anora
Anora was the big Oscar winner that released in 2024 and came from the filmmaker, Sean Baker, who I heard much about before. It seemed he had a highly praised career in the indie scene, most notably with The Florida Project , and I was curious to see how a film seemingly as explicit as this won over the hearts and minds of the Oscar committee, and if this felt like a Best Picture winner for the ages. Time will tell but maybe my watchlist was about to get a whole lot longer... The story follows Anora, a lap dancer from New York, who meets the young son to a wealthy Russian oligarch. Things start-off with a few casual meetings but then a relationship starts to grow between them. Has Anora found love, and way out of working long nights, or are things about to take a turn? Besides some of the raunchy images and posters, I knew very little going into this and found the first 30 minutes or so to be decent if somewhat slow. The performances are all very good and believable but I found myself ...
