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‘Anora’ Review: Mikey Madison Gives Her All In Sean Baker’s Subversive Screwball Comedy – Cannes Film Festival
‘Anora’ review: Mikey Madison gives her all in Sean Baker’s subversive screwball comedy – Cannes Film Festival
Anora ( Mikey Madison) is a sex worker, giving raunchy topless lap dances in a busy upmarket strip club called Headquarters and going the extra mile for clients she likes. You could also put it in the bracket of Big Apple nightmare movies, alongside Scorsese’s After Hours and the Safdies’ Good Time, since the film’s most enjoyable sequence is the pursuit of Ivan, from a candy store in Coney Island to the meat racks of Manhattan, in a night of surprises involving drugs, vomit, a smashed-up tow truck and a vicious stripper smackdown. The nudity will doubtless be controversial, but it will be especially interesting to see what audiences make of the film’s heart-breaking ending — a subtle rebuttal to the allegations of exploitation that will surely ensue — in which Ani’s confident façade breaks down and we see the emotional cost of being manhandled by men for a living and the pain of being used by them under the pretext of love.
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