Anora Review: A Radical Tale of Two-Week Sexual Marriage in Semi-Porn Format

RATING - ⭐ ⭐ ✨ 2.5/5*

Anora Review Movie Talkies:

Anora has just grabbed the headlines with its Oscar win, so it becomes mandatory to watch and review it ASAP. It doesn't matter if you don't agree with the Oscars jury, as they have been wrong many times in those 97 years. Let's see it as a straightforward film, barring the burden of Oscars.

Anora is a sexually explicit and comically entertaining film that is low on substance. Many of you have the classic Oscar-winning flick, Nights of Cabiria (1957), etched in your cinematic memory forever, so let's recall the basic essence of it. A prostitute looking for a marriage partner is shattered by his disappearance or abandonment.

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Anora Story:

Similarly, Anora is about Ani, aka Anora, an American stripper, who has several sexual encounters with a Russian guy from a wealthy and respectable family. She agrees to be his "horny girlfriend" for a week, and at the end of the week, they decide to get married. After the marriage, his family sends three men to annul it, and the guy runs away. Ani is left with these three men, facing an offer of 10k for an annulment, and she struggles to accept it.

I won't reveal much, but you'll see that sad ending akin to Federico Fellini's Italian classic. What's missing is that emotional mic-drop moment of Giulietta Masina. Instead, here Ani can be seen fuc--ing another guy at the end before she starts crying. A wasted ending for a script that was already too lacking in soul. That's where the film couldn't win my vote (if that matters to anyone, but it doesn't).

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Anora Cast:

On the positive side, Mikey Madison's performance is simply outstanding. It is no wonder she won the Best Actress award at the Oscars. This was such a wild character, and it indeed allowed her to go unapologetically uncompromised.

Anora Movie Review:

There are a lot of cuss words, nude scenes, revealing sexual intimacy, and ruined characters that made it a semi-nude classic. Mark Eydelshteyn was fine, Yura Borisov did well, and Karren Karagulian was superb in his role. The screenplay is fast-paced and entertaining, allowing you to enjoy some absurd jokes that surely bring some organic gags. Sean Baker has kept it a thoroughly engaging affair; it's just that the story is not worth it. But who knows, the Western audience may enjoy a stripper and a drug addict's platonic sexual affair. Let them hail it; we (Indians) aren’t endorsing it much.

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