Anora

Went in knowing almost nothing, and thank goodness. This is absolutely INSANE. Man it falls off a cliff tonally right when the fairytale ends and the men arrive at the door. So much to think about. There are some brilliant moments in this. Basically about how the upper class fucks the middle class and then discards them when they’re no longer of use (literally, in this film). A broken woman who only knows sex and being a servant.. void of emotion and genuine connection. Chaos ensues and she has not a second to process it or feel.. until the only man who doesn’t see her as a sex object looks at her.. and everything breaks. Ani vs Anora. Very good even though it’s overlong and obnoxiously self indulgent at some points. A tad underwritten in the middle, too. It also takes quite a while to set up, and a good chunk of it is chaos that just adds noise that can become obnoxious pretty easily. But it finds its way in the end - even though it takes a little too long to do so.