ANORA (TIFF 2024) – Review by Liz Braun
Anora is a terrific movie, but no surprise there — it’s been winning over audiences since it took the Palme D’Or at Cannes last spring. Writer/director Sean Baker once again mines the world o’ sex work to find a great story populated by a rag-tag crowd of the dispossessed and disenfranchised. In Anora, a young sex worker marries the son of a Russian oligarch; she then has to deal with the fallout when his powerful parents show up, demanding an annulment. It’s a Damon Runyon tale for the 21st century, a subversive Cinderella story that’s hugely energetic and often very funny.
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