Anora nationality biography
In Russia, “anoru” is expected with a special trepidation, because the main stars of domestic cinema are involved in the cast of the film. Eni Mikey Madison lives in the depressed area of Brooklyn and works stripped in a nightclub. Once a young Russian guy named Vanya Mark Eidelstein, the offspring of a billionaire Nikolai Zakharov Alexei Serebryakov, looks there. He asks the administrator of the institution to bring to him someone who speaks his native language.
Eni, brought up by a bastard’s grandmother, cannot speak Russian freely, but she has enough vocabulary to understand Ivan. After several meetings that were already in the parental mansion, he offers Eni for twenty thousand dollars a week to become his exclusive girl. She agrees, and they, together with his friends, go to the Vegas, where they soon decide to play a wedding.
Upon learning of this from the news feed, the groom's parents fly to the States in order to dissolve the marriage. Understanding that the punishment for him will be a return to his homeland, the young man escapes in an unknown direction. First of all, we are talking about the father of the American Indo-Kino John Kassavetis, the “voice of the marginals” of Hale Ashby and the British humanist Kene Louche.
The heroes of Baker’s paintings are always outcasts, outcasts of society due to their origin or kind of activity. He does not brand them, but does not justify them, but does everything so that the viewer feels understanding and compassion for them. However, unlike social cinema, which is shot in foggy Albion, American capitalist neorealism is not distinguished by an open criticism of the system.
The tape does not focus on what prompted Eni to provide intimate services for money. Other on the site of the Baker, be sure to mention difficult childhood, early growing up and the inability to pay for college, which together led the main character to the only possible type of earnings. And in general, “Anora” is not so much a social drama as an inverted fairy tale. A good part of postmodern works has been built on the deconstruction of common plots and key archetypes, and the picture of Sean Baker is no exception.
The fact that selfish and immature tyrant performed by Eidelstein does not at all look like a “prince on a white horse” becomes obvious as soon as the hero appears on the screen. Baker did not plan to retell the plot of “beauty” with Julia Roberts in the second round. If in a cult melodrama the Edward played by Richard Gir at the end turned into that very hero of the knightly novel, ready to climb the tower in order to “save the princess”, then in “Anor” Ivan is not able to even run away from problems or humbly hide his head in the sand.
His meaningless and merciless rebellion against parents can be described by the famous expression in our area "I will spite my ears to freeze." While the heroine of Julia Roberts was closer to the final understood that she no longer wanted to make love for money, even if they were transferred to the equivalent of marital gifts, the anoras of such dissonance in her head did not arise.
She is ready to zealously protect her marriage, but by no means because of warm feelings for her husband, but in order to maintain a certain social status. The motive of the central heroine of history, of course, is self -serving, but absolutely understandable to the viewer, and therefore it is not difficult to penetrate with her sympathy. For actress Mike Madison, this is the first main role in his career; And this is an incredible success that will definitely be immortalized in nominations in the award season.
The real decoration of “Anora” was a trio consisting of the Armenian priest Toros, the unsuccessful gangster Garnik and the “Rashn Gopnik” Igor. It is on them that the good part of the comedic component of the film is held. Their skirmishes with Eni-the Anglo-Russian-Armenian polyphony merging together with obscene abuse is the best that is in the picture. Yura Borisov again found himself in the intended role of a rude and inaccurate guy with a good heart.
In the year, he had already drove into Cannes with the film "Coupe number six", where he played a similar character. Another participant in the main competition of the festival was then Shan Baker with his Red Rocket. As for the representative of the Russian diaspora on the screen, the director managed to go around all the sharp corners and evade all kinds of accusations. Despite the overall raid of a fabulous grotesque shown on the screen, the inhabitants of Brighton Beach and even the oligarch family do not seem at all caricature and too stereotypical.
On the other hand, there is no romanticization in the Anor. If there was some China-Town in San Francisco in the place of the Russian-speaking region of Brooklyn, the story would hardly have been radically transformed. Adrenaline, rapid, colorful action in the finale gives way to muffled colors, measured narration and soul -confusion in silence. The heartbreaking ending, contrasting with everything previously shown, completes the adventures of the heroine in pursuit of light money and a fabulous metamorphosis “from mud to the riches” is the only logical way.Sean Baker got a piercing story about loneliness, in which much more sad than it might seem at first glance.