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Anora: how a $6 million film about a sex worker became an Oscar frontrunner
After Mikey Madison’s surprise win at the Baftas, Sean Baker’s film might pull off an even bigger shock at the awards ceremony next month
The story follows the exploits of a resilient stripper and escort called Anora “Ani” Mikheeva (Madison), who is hired by Vanya (Mark Eydelshteyn), the mercurial son of a Russian oligarch with access to a giant Brighton Beach mega-mansion, for a single week of hedonistic partying and sensual pleasure. However, Vanya’s all-powerful and wildly protective family (armed bodyguards are involved) hear of the plan and fly directly to America, and there begins a screwball comedy of funny, furious and emotionally resonant proportions. The film, shot over 37 days beginning in February 2023, takes the familiar Pretty Woman-style premise of “troubled but very rich guy hires charismatic sex worker for personally transformative misadventure” and runs it through the honesty mill.
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