NYFF: How a Palme d’Or Winner Pulled Off an ’80s-Style Action-Comedy Set Piece Involving a Sex Worker

[The following story contains spoilers from Anora.] It’s the scene of the movie and perhaps of the season: halfway through his sex-worker dramedy Anora, director Sean Baker somehow puts on the board a 28-minute real-time scene in which a pair of heavies out of an ’80s action-comedy seek to rein in Mikey Madison’s tough-but-vulnerable escort […]

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