Drama · Comedy · Romance
American
2024 · Directed by Sean Baker · 139 min
Ani, a young sex worker in Brooklyn, meets the impulsive son of a Russian oligarch and is swept into a fairy-tale romance of private jets and mansions. Sean Baker's film begins as a glittering comedy and gradually becomes something rougher and more exposed.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining film of 2020s American independent cinema, it showed that a character-driven, location-shot story about working people could win the festival world's top prize and the Academy's.
Watch with intention
Watch how the film's comedy is built from money and status, and how the jokes change as the power in each room shifts.
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