New Releases

ANORA

Directed by Sean Baker

USA, 2024, 2h 19min, DCP

New Releases

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6406 N I-35 Suite 3100 Austin, TX 78752

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$13.50 evening / $11 matinee (available M-F for shows before 6 PM)

$4 discounts for all AFS members.

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“A bawdy modern fable, populated by strippers and strongmen and brutes. Like most of Sean Baker’s movies, it is, at its core, about the limits of the American dream, the many invisible walls that stand in the way of fantasies about equality and opportunity and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. This is a story of wealth, and power, and what love can and can’t overcome. But it’s also about something far more heart-rending: what it means to be accustomed to being looked at one way, and then experiencing, out of the blue, what it feels like to actually be seen.”
—Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times (NYT Critic’s Pick)

“ANORA is boundlessly alive with a quality we’ve seen continually in the movies of Sean Baker, among the most humanist filmmakers working today. There is joy next to sadness. There is comedy inside a tragedy.”
—Tomris Laffly, RogerEbert.com

Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner ANORA is an audacious, thrilling, and comedic variation on a modern day Cinderella story.

Mikey Madison (ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD) captivates as Ani, a young sex worker from Brooklyn whose life takes an unexpected turn when she meets and impulsively marries Vanya, the impetuous son of a Russian billionaire. However, when Vanya’s parents catch wind of the union, they send their henchmen to annul the marriage, setting off a wild chase through the streets of New York.

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