“Anora” Is More for Show Than for Substance

Richard Brody reviews Sean Baker’s latest film, “Anora,” starring Mikey Madison and Mark Eydelshteyn.

“Anora” is largely set in New York City, particularly in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, where the movie’s title character , who calls herself Ani, lives. She’s a tough-talking and spirited twenty-three-year-old sex worker at a Manhattan club. She is paired off with a client of twenty-one—a Russian man named Ivan , who goes by Vanya, goofy and profligate—because she speaks a little Russian . Vanya is taken with her and asks to see her privately.

With “Anora,” Baker falls into one of the most woeful conventions of commercial filmmaking , the silent working class, but he does so with a difference: he has his characters talk a lot even though they say very little.

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