Semi-improvised, guerrilla-style filmmaking brings gritty realism to Sean Baker’s beleaguered love story.
As the needle drops on Take That’s ‘Greatest Day’ and before the opening credits have unrolled freewheeling sex dramedy Anora deposits the audience in a strip club. It’s one of many semi-improvised sequences in the Cannes Palm D’or winning feature written, directed and edited by Sean Baker who calls his style “guerilla.”
“We’re setting up this whole first hour of the film like a Hollywood romantic comedy,” the filmmaker said after a screening at the London Film Festival (LFF). “Pretty Woman is a good comparison.”...
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