
‘Anora’ Review: Sean Baker’s Latest Film is Warming Hearts and Breaking Them Too
‘Anora’ Review: Sean Baker’s Latest Film is Warming Hearts and Breaking Them TooThe director Sean Baker, whose films are regarded as character-driven and gritty, often focuses on marginalized groups such as the undocumented Chinese immigrants in Take Out (2004) or the transgender sex workers in Los Angeles in Tangerine (2015). His latest venture, Anora — which won the Palme d’Or (the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival) — continues this trend by following a female stripper living i...