Anora Is a Wake-Up Call From the American Dream

Sean Baker has spent much of his recent career profiling one of the most marginalized categories of labor in America, the sex worker, in ways that are refreshingly matter-of-fact. The director always manages to depict the ways in which people working in the sex industry are locked out of legitimate society and systems — take washed-up porn star Mikey’s failed attempts to find gainful employment in Red Rocket or unemployed stripper Halley’s struggle to collect TANF benefits in The Florida Project…

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