Sean Baker

All the Films in Competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, Ranked from Best to Worst

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All the Films in Competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, Ranked from Best to Worst

The seventy-seventh annual Cannes Film Festival came to a startling and joyous conclusion on Saturday night, when the competition jury, chaired by Greta Gerwig, awarded the Palme d’Or, the festival’s highest honor, to “Anora,” a funny, harrowing, and finally quite moving portrait of a sex worker’s madcap New York misadventures. It was startling because the … Read more

‘Anora’ wins Cannes Film Festival’s top honor

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‘Anora’ wins Cannes Film Festival’s top honor

Sean Baker’s “Anora,” a comic but devastating Brooklyn odyssey about a sex worker who marries the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, has won the Cannes Film Festival’s top award, the Palme d’Or. The win Saturday for “Anora” marked a coronation for Baker, the acclaimed indie filmmaker of “The Florida Project.” It’s also, remarkably, the … Read more