Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes with Sean Baker Anora will open this year's Stockholm Film Festival, organizers said Tuesday.
Cry AND Once upon a time…in Hollywood actress Mikey Madison plays the lead character in the comedy-drama, playing a prostitute in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, who gets mixed up with the son of a Russian oligarch.
Anora was presented in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won first prize as best film. Baker toured the festival circuit screening the feature film Anora at the Telluride, Toronto and San Sebastián film festivals.
The Hollywood journalistThe festival review praised Madison's performance saying she plays Anora “with a sweetness that humanizes even the most transactional situations and a defensiveness that makes her dangerous when threatened.”
AnoraThe next stop will be Sweden, where the film will kick off the 2024 Stockholm Film Festival on November 6. The 34th annual Stockholm Festival will take place November 6-17.
Baker is a regular in Stockholm, having projected his success in 2015 mandarin and features of 2017 The Florida Project at the festival. In a statement, the Stockholm festival highlighted the connection between these features and Anora. They all “examine marginalized groups in general and the daily lives of sex workers in particular. With his eighth feature film, humanist and independent filmmaker Sean Baker proves himself to be one of the most skilled contemporary portraitists of the modern working class in the United States.
Neon ha Anora for the United States and is planning an October 18 release.