“Anora” is the clearing film at the Oscars 2025-you need to know that about the drama
“Anora” tells the story of a sex worker who meets the son of a Russian oligarch and how her life takes a special turn: the two marry. Who doesn't that fit? His family. She wants the marriage to be canceled immediately. “Anora” was six times for oneNominated-and was able to win five Academy awards. For a long time, the film was advertised with Mikey Madison as a new Cinderella fairy tale à la “Pretty Woman”. But is that really true?
Do you want to know what makes “anora” so special for Mikey Madison and the sex workers? Then please go along here, because here is everything we are aboutKnow “Anora”.
“Anora”: That's what it's all about
“Anora” sounds like the modern version of a Cinderella fairy tale: The 23-year-old sex worker Anora “Ani” Mikheeva lives in Brooklyn and works as a stripper and. In her job she met the rich Russian oligarch son Ivan “Vanya” Zakhariv. He also lives in Brooklyn and is actually in the USA to study - but it is better to beat the nights at parties and strip clubs.
Vanya pays Ani for various sexual services and finally offers her $ 15,000 to spend a week with him. Maybe vanya has a little bitLooked? No matter, at least the two make their way to Las Vegas this week, where Vanya Ani oneMake - not only out of love, but because Vanya would get a work permit for the United States with this marriage and did not have to return to Russia and have to work for his father. Despite Ani's doubts, the two marry-Las-Vegas style!
However, the happiness of the two does not last long: As soon as Ani moves to his now husband Vanya to his town house in Brooklyn, Vanya's family gets wind from the wedding. And instead of congratulations, Vanya's mother, father and Armenian godfather Toros make themselves on their way to the USA to let the marriage (forced) be canceled.
After a few tangible arguments, a night full of strippers, alcohol and drugs and angry parents, the love of Ani and Vanya is at stake: it's about onewho was never signed and the Ani would make rich, and onewho wants to protect her adult son from his own actions. As in a fever dream, “Anora” inevitably controls to a dramatic end.
“Anora” is an inbilitation of youthful recklessness, falling in love and the urge to not become as well as your own. The drama is socially critical: it shows the dealings of society with sex workers and strippers, which of the shift they pay for their services, how dirt is treated.
Is “Anora” the new one? No. Unless you wanted the original story of the film, in which her Vivian was not originally supposed to be saved by a prince in a mold.
“Anora” has already won these awards
“Anora” has the2024 won the “Golden Palm”. The drama was nominated for the Golden Globes 2025, Mikey Madison was for oneand oneNominated and was awarded the BAFTAS as the “best leading actress”.
“I can only say that I am really happy that people think so much about the film and that it ensures conversation. That is exciting, ”said Madison toBritish VogueAbout yours-Nomination.
Overall, “Anora” was nominated 193 times in various categories on various award shows and was able to win 75 times.
Since the morning hours of March 3, 2025, it has been official: “Anora” is the big winner of the 97th Oscar ceremony. In five categories, the film, which was nominated six times, was able to prevail, among other things, he was awarded an Academy Award in the categories “Best Film”, “Best Director”, “Best Screenplay” and “Best Last Actress”. An indie production has never managed to do that before.
Who plays in “Anora”?
Mikey Madison (,) plays the main role of the anora “Ani” Mikheeva. Mark Eydelshteyn (). All other actors: Inside, primarily no larger Hollywood references, which “Anora” marks as independent film-and is a kind of surprise in the Oscars circus.
Sean Baker is responsible for the script, director and cut at “Anora”. The director is nominated for “Anora” for the first time at the Academy Awards, his biggest hit so far was the socially critical indie film “The Florida Project” with Willem Dafoe (). It is special that Baker wrote the role of Ani on his protagonist Madison after seeing her in “Scream”: “This is really something special,” said Madison about this privilege. “I think some of me definitely had a certain one, but I tried to push it aside and only concentrate on the figure, ”she said.
But Mikey Madison actively participated in the elaboration of the Ani: "I read memoirs from sex workers", reported her about her preparation for her role in "Anora". In addition, she devoured documentaries and YouTube videos with titles such as “One Night in my life as a dancer” to prepare for Ani.
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This is what leading actress Mikey Madison says about “Anora”
Mikey Madison plays the leading actress Ani in “Anora”. Madison already commented on her role as a sex worker and the Oscar-nominated film as part of a Special Preview that was organized for real-life strippers. "This preview was something that I wanted to do for a long time," Madison told the US industry magazineVariety.
"I am close to tears when I talk about it," said the 25-year-old actress. “The film is the most important thing for sex workers. This special screening is really something special. Just come in and all of these wonderful women beat theirsTogether and applauded us. That was beautiful. "
Where can you see “Anora”?
“Anora” regularly started in German cinemas on October 31, 2024. Shortly before the Oscars you can use the dramaAmazon Prime Video,Apple TV+andSky/Wowlend.
Is “Anora” really as feminist as some critics: claim inside?
As soon as “anora” has been published, it is said that this is abe. But is that true? Or did the drama get this label just missed because it is about reasonably empo -worthy sex workers? Let's take a closer look at that.
Okay, okay: It's not a big secret that Hollywood has always been with a certain sexistHome when it comes to women and romantic relationships: imagination that true love means that you have to be saved as a woman. This imagination always runs according to the following scheme: a young woman who is in a difficult situation hits a rich or powerful man, despite all adverseities, they fall in love with each other, and the problems of women dissolve in air.
You could see that on the big screen: in Disney's “Cinderella”, in everyone-Discover, in pretty much everyoneAbout an alleged European prince or even in “Pretty Woman”, which is currently quite regularly compared with “Anora”.
Is “Anora” the new anti-“Pretty Woman”?
“Anora”, some criticism claims, is the new anti-“Pretty Woman”: The story of a sex worker who does not get her Hollywood Happy-End is praised as a feminist triumph. Really now? AHappy Endor aUnhappy Endare not indicators for feminism, not even in the film.
Because “Anora” also fails to address sexism that is created in the “rescuer fantasy”. Instead of turning over the narrative of “Pretty Woman” and saying that it does not have to be saved or can even save itself, the film gives us a new imagination that is back around theturns. He suggests: “She just has to get from thatcorrectMan will be saved by a good man - he may not be rich, but he will really understand her. ” In the case of “Anora” this would mean concrete: maybe not the rich vanya, but the loyal Igor Anis Retter could be. Honestly, such a nonsense.
Ani really wants to be saved in “Anora”, she wants life in the grubby strip club, which primarily satisfy the fantasies of men. Vanya seems to be her main prize. If “Anora” were a fairy tale with a happy ending, the film would be over shortly after the wedding. But “Anora” is just as little a fairy tale as real life.
There are no rescuers in “Anora”, so the “Saviour” fantasy is obsolete
At the latest when the Armenian rackers Vanya and his bride get Ani back onto the bottom of the facts, the short luck of the two is over: the marriage is to be canceled, Vanya's family does not want to accept the sex worker Ani. Instead of fighting his wife, who, above all, did a favor with the prospect of a work and residence permit in the USA, flees Vanya and leaves Ani with the rackets. And from this point in time, Ani realizes that Vanya is nothing of what she had hoped for: the son from a rich house will never be able to save her - he has money, but he also has, who do not make the adult son made their own decisions and treat them themselves like scum.
The moment when “Anora” changes from fairy tales to real social criticism is bitter: it is heartbreaking to see how the hope of the young girl breaks a better future, a better life. But Sean Baker fails to deal with the problem of the “rescuer fantasy”: Instead, the film seems to suggest that Vanya was simply not the right savior for Ani. Maybe it could be a thug Igor, because it seemsreallyto see. But that this fairy tale, to be saved by a single person, actually never really rises in real life? This is not an issue in “Anora”.
Baker misses to break with the Hollywood topic, after which women always represent as “people who want to be saved”. In “Anora” it becomes even bizarre when in the last third of the drama is not told from Ani's point of view, but from that of Igor, the apparently good -natured bodyguard. Through his gaze, the audience sees as Ani sits calmly in the back seat of a car, faces Vanya's mother or watches TV.
Why does Baker let his heroine see through the eyes of a man? Is it because at least one person sees a sex worker more in her than "just"? Because you can at least see through your eyes that she is a clever, clever, spirited young woman? That is a very strange choice. After all, Igor is also the guy who kidnapped her and tied her with a telephone cable. But at least Igor says of himself that he is “not a rapist”. This gives bonus points in this bizarre story, right?!
The film ends with a blatant sexual encounter between Ani and Igor, in which Ani collapses emotionally. But not only Ani collapses at that moment, but also her dream, her imagination, in which she is saved and to which she clung to the end.: Igor, of course - not ani. Too bad too.
So is “Anora” now like “Pretty Woman” or like an anti-“Pretty Woman”? Unclear. What is certain is that the dismantling of the “Pretty Woman” myth does not really take place. At least not as we expect. “Anora” ultimately presents nothing more than a different version of the same “rescuer fantasy”-again inMale Gazetold. Sure, superficially, it may look as if the film tidy up with this cliché. But when you look a little deeper, you can see that the imagination is still there that women still want to be saved here and do not know how to help themselves - and all of this as strongly and relentless as ever.
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