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The new Pretty Woman? This wild caper about a stripper and a shady high-roller is far cleverer, BRIAN VINER writes


They're like those proverbial London buses, arriving in convoy just when you were beginning to think you might never see one again.

Writer and director Sean Baker — who comes from Summit, New Jersey — has reached the top of his game with this funny, sad, touching, energetic, relevant, altogether engrossing tale of a bright, spirited ‘erotic dancer’, the titular Anora, gloriously played by Mikey Madison. Single mum Rita (the excellent Saoirse Ronan) shares a terraced house with her mixed-race, nine-year-old son George (impressive newcomer Elliott Heffernan), and her dad Gerald (convincingly played by musician Paul Weller in his screen-acting debut). Blitz follows the story of Single mum Rita (the excellent Saoirse Ronan) who shares a terraced house with her mixed-race, nine-year-old son George (impressive newcomer Elliott Heffernan), and her dad Gerald (convincingly played by musician Paul Weller in his screen-acting debut)

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