First Full Trailer for Palme d’Or Winner ‘Anora’ Starring Mikey Madison

First Full Trailer for Palme d’Or Winner ‘Anora’ Starring Mikey Madison

by Alex Billington
July 15, 2024
Source: YouTube

“I am telling you, you do not know this guy!” You tell ’em! Neon has revealed the first official trailer for Anora, the beloved Palme d’Or winner from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, the latest film from acclaimed American filmmaker Sean Baker (of Tangerine, The Florida Project, Red Rocket). “A love story from Sean Baker starring Mikey Madison.” Ani, a young sex worker from Brooklyn who works nightly as a stripper in Manhattan, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and then impulsively marries the son of a Russian oligarch named Vanya (aka Ivan). Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled. So begins 24 hours of stressful NYC mayhem as hired goons pick her up and try to find Ivan. Mikey Madison stars as Ani, along with Mark Eydelshteyn, Yura Borisov, Karren Karagulian, and Vache Tovmasyan. I’m extremely proud to be quoted in this trailer (here’s my review) right at the end before the title card!! It truly is a “one-of-a-kind” film. Absolutely deserves the Palme d’Or and all the awards that are coming its way later this year. A must watch first trailer.

Here’s the first trailer (both green band + red band) for Sean Baker’s film Anora, direct from YouTube:

Ani (Mikey Madison) is a young Uzbek-American stripper from Brighton Beach, a Russophone enclave in New York City. As she is somewhat conversant in Russian, her boss at the strip club fixes her up with a Russian-speaking client. After meeting Vanya, the son of a Russian oligarch, a romance kindles that leads to their elopement while on a trip to Las Vegas. Their fairytale marriage is threatened when the man’s parents travel to New York to force an annulment. Anora is written and directed by acclaimed American filmmaker Sean Baker, director of the films Four Letter Words, Take Out, Prince of Broadway, Starlet, Tangerine, The Florida Project, and Red Rocket previously. Produced by Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, and Sean Baker. This first premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year (read our review). Neon debuts Baker’s Anora in select US theaters starting October 18th, 2024 this fall. Don’t miss it. Who’s in?

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