Sean Baker and Mikey Madison’s Palme d’Or Romance ‘Anora’ Debuts First Trailer
Sean Baker’s latest film Anora, which took home the top prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, has debuted its first trailer.
Mikey Madison, best known for her work on the FX series Better Things, stars as the titular character, as a New York sex worker who marries the son of a Russian oligarch.
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The trailer for the Neon movie sees Anora heading to Las Vegas and running into a little, white chapel, after which she and her new husband are pursued by fixers trying to break up the new marriage. Along the way, there is plenty of partying, private jets, and shopping for furs. The film has drawn comparisons to the Julia Roberts standby Pretty Woman.
Anora, Baker’s follow-up to Red Rocket, earned high praise from critics out of Cannes, where is took home the Palme d’Or.
Reads THR‘s festival review, “As a character, played by Mikey Madison with a sweetness that humanizes even the most transactional situations and a defensiveness that makes her dangerous when threatened, Anora, who goes by Ani, stands alongside the defiantly resilient protagonists of Baker’s last handful of films, from Starlet and Tangerine through The Florida Project and Red Rocket.”
Anora will be released in theaters on October 18 via Neon.
Watch the trailer for Anora below.
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