‘s will open this year’s , organizers said Tuesday. and actress stars as the titular character , playing a sex worker in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, who gets mixed up with the son of a Russian oligarch. premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, where it took the top prize for best film.
Baker has been touring the festival circuit with the feature, screening at Telluride, Toronto and the Sa . ‘s festival review called out Madison’s performance for praise saying she plays Anora “with a sweetness that humanizes even the most transactional situations and a defensiveness that makes her dangerous when threatened.” ‘s next stop will be Sweden, where the film will kick off the 2024 Stockholm Film Festival on Nov.
6. The 34th annual Stockholm festival runs Nov. 6-17.
Baker is a regular at Stockholm, having screened his 2015 breakthrough and 2017 feature at the festival. In a statement, the Stockholm festival noted how the connection between those features and Anora. They all “examine marginalized groups in general and the in particular.
With his eighth feature film, the indie humanist and filmmaker Sean Baker proves that he is one of the most skilled contemporary portrayers of the modern working class in the United States.” Neon has for the U.S.
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