"Anora" - Review

New York stripper Anora (Mikey Madison) is hired by Russian oligarch's son Ivan "Vanya" Zakharov (Mark Eydelshteyn) as an escort, due to her ability to speak Russian. A whirlwind romance follows, told as a fairy tale fable through the lense of Sean Baker...

Spellbinding.
Bold, audacious, beautiful, emotionally complex, and far funnier than I was expecting: it is an absolutely wild ride which leaves you breathless. When the wool falls from Anora's eyes and the spell is broken, it is not in some vast overly-verbose monologue, but a silent awkward car journey through the cold and bustling night. A love story ripples beneath the surface, but not the one you expect. We strive for human connection, we all deserve to be loved.
Is Anora a grifter, an idealist, a professional, or a fairy tale dreamer? Maybe she's all 4... By the end of it, on a pragmatic sense, she is better off: but was any of this worth her pride, her dignity, the raw emotional scars which will develop from this? It's messy, clean, bright, dark, loud, quiet, funny, sad and exactly what I wanted and needed it to be. It's about the human experience, and a pitch perfect examination of life on the lower rungs of society.
And of all the things I expected to see, Take That was maybe rock bottom, but much appreciated.
I get chills thinking about this movie