Anora
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Due to the severe weather warnings and public transport cancellations we have delayed opening the building until 14:00 today. All screenings and events from 14:00 onwards will go ahead as normal. We will have a slightly reduced menu available from 15:00 in the Café & Bar today. Thank you for your understanding. xxx
Sean Baker (Florida Project, Red Rocket) presents the Cannes Palme d'Or-winning story about Ani, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, meeting Vanya, a spoiled son of a Russian oligarch, who offers her a glamorous new life of possibility and incredible wealth.
Ani’s wild ride and fairytale is soon threatened when news of their whirlwind marriage gets back to Russia, resulting in Vanya’s parents flying to New York to manage the situation.
Both wildly entertaining and heartbreaking, Anora takes audiences on a freewheeling, rambunctious adventure that escalates to dizzying levels. Drawing comparisons to Pretty Woman, it constantly plays with genre and audience expectations. But what shines through most, as it does in all of his films, is Baker’s love for and unwillingness to judge his characters.
The feature presentation contains sequences of flashing lights that may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy or other photo-sensitivities.