Anora review
Former BAFS volunteer and film aficionado Vince LePlavy reviews Anora:
“On the fringes of cinema there have always been the side players: the unsung heroes who never get their due credit because of an unaccepting public or a society that’s not ready to see stories with these characters up on the big screen. The Roger Corman films of the 1960’s and 1970’s mined out a unique niche within Hollywood while the adult film industry boomed with a golden age unlike any has seen before it. Then the last 50 years happened and audiences are facing a significantly similar cultural moment that they want to see conveyed in the films they watch. Enter Sean Baker. With his smash indie hit Anora, one can feel a sense that the spotlight has finally turned back on to those “fringe players” and shows them as fully emotional and complex human beings. Baker has adeptly depicted theses individuals before with Tangerine (2015), The Florida Project (2017) & Red Rocket (2021), but with Anora he fastens a wide-scope cinematic lens to his usual dynamite storytelling and swings for the fences with awards-worthy results…”
