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Anora, tale of a stripper who marries a Russian oligarch, wins Palme d’Or at Cannes

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Anora, a tragi-comic modern-day Cinderella story about a stripper who marries a multimillionare, made by the American director Sean Baker, has won the coveted Palme d’Or at the 77 th Cannes Film Festival. “This literally has been my singular goal as a film-maker for the past 30 years,” he said, going on to thank his leading actor Mikey Madison, who plays Ani, a Brooklyn call girl whose life changes into a fairy tale and then into a nightmare after she meets the son of a Russian oligarch who wants to make her his wife. The French director Coralie Fargeat had been seen as in contention for the top prize with her American film The Substance, starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, but in the end she left the ceremony holding the award for best screenplay in acknowledgement of her striking feminist story about the cruel politics of ageing for a woman in the public eye.

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