THE MORNING LIST
This week, even if no new movies hit theaters, there are plenty of great deals to be had during this All Saints’ Day holiday period. Starting with the Palme d’Or in 2024, longsby Sean Baker, a formidable odyssey of misfits and broken arms that arrives at the right time to awaken American independent cinema. Veteran Clint Eastwood presents a new film at 94 years old. Jury #2a legal fiction that hunts in the lands of Twelve angry menby Sidney Lumet. Finally, in the animation department, Flow, the cat who was no longer afraid of water puts Latvia in the spotlight by imagining, going against anthropomorphism, splendid animal figures in a flooded world.
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“Anora”: unraveling the fairy tale
Everything that Hollywood no longer wants to see can be seen in Sean Baker’s films. His work, already rich in eight feature films, formulates lucid observations. Sex as currency and sometimes as the only means of survival. Social class understood as a destiny that always reaches you. Finally, money that structures the world.
Anora (Mikey Madison), a young prostitute working in Brooklyn, joins the list of galley slave heroes crossing the Baker galaxy. One night, he entertains Ivan (Mark Eydelshteyn), a young client who turns out to be the son of a Russian oligarch. He invites her to his huge villa to pay for her services.escort girl. Without warning, a sincere relationship is formed (certainly at a price). One morning, Ivan’s father’s henchmen appear unexpectedly to cancel the union. Then, everything that the first part patiently built will be cruelly dismantled by the second.
tormented by The Wizard of Ozfrom which he often adopts his divided structure between dream and reality, Sean Baker organizes the clash between the beauty of mirages and political lucidity. longsI would be pretty womanbut mounted backwards, that is, placed again in the correct order. Mr. Jo.
American film by Sean Baker. With Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Yuri Borissov (2:19).
“Juror No. 2”: America in the courtroom
We knew it at least from The man of the high plains (1973), his second feature film as a director, Clint Eastwood is the quintessential comeback man. From among the shadows of classic cinema, from a young man who has disappeared for all eternity, and even from his own death. Author, at 94 years old, of a now monumental work, the impassive ghost delivers with Jury #2 a test film combined with a thriller.
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