{"id":15803,"date":"2024-10-01T10:34:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T08:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/ita\/?p=15803"},"modified":"2024-10-01T10:34:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T08:34:45","slug":"sean-bakers-cannes-winner-anora-to-open-stockholm-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/ita\/2024\/10\/sean-bakers-cannes-winner-anora-to-open-stockholm-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Bakers Cannes Winner Anora to Open Stockholm Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t \tSean Baker\u2018s Cannes Palme d\u2019Or winner Anora will open this year\u2019s Stockholm Film Festival, organizers said Tuesday. \tScream and Once Upon A Time\u2026In Hollywood actress Mikey Madison stars as the titular character in the screwball dramedy, playing a sex worker in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, who gets mixed up with the son of a Russian oligarch. \tAnora premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, where it took the top prize for best film. Baker has been touring the festival circuit with the feature, screening Anora at Telluride, Toronto and the San Sebasti\u00e1n film festivals. \t \tThe Hollywood Reporter\u2018s festival review called out Madison\u2019s performance for praise saying she plays Anora \u201cwith a sweetness that humanizes even the most transactional situations and a defensiveness that makes her dangerous when threatened.\u201d \tAnora\u2018s next stop will be Sweden, where the film will kick off the 2024 Stockholm Film Festival on Nov. 6. The 34th annual Stockholm festival runs Nov. 6-17. \tBaker is a regular at Stockholm, having screened his 2015 breakthrough Tangerine and 2017 feature The Florida Project at the festival. In a statement, the Stockholm festival noted how the connection between those features and Anora. They all \u201cexamine marginalized groups in general and the everyday life of sex workers in particular. With his eighth feature film, the indie humanist and filmmaker Sean Baker proves that he is one of the most skilled contemporary portrayers of the modern working class in the United States.\u201d \tNeon has Anora for the U.S. and is planning an October 18 release. \t\t\t\t \t\t \t\t\t \t \t \t\tTHR Newsletters \t \t \t\t\t \tSign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day \t\t \t\t \t \t \t\tSubscribe\t \t\t\tSign Up \t \t \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sean Baker\u2018s Cannes Palme d\u2019Or winner Anora will open this year\u2019s Stockholm Film Festival, organizers said Tuesday. Scream and Once Upon A Time\u2026In Hollywood actress Mikey Madison stars as the titular character in the screwball dramedy, playing a sex worker in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, who gets mixed up with the son of a Russian oligarch. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/ita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/ita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/ita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/ita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/ita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/ita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/ita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/ita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/ita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/ita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}