Sean Baker calls taking the phase at the Cannes Film Festival in May to accept the Palme d’Or, the celebration’s greatest honor, the “most frustrating minute of my life.”
Onstage, he informed the crowd that winning the Palme hadactually been his particular objective for the past 30 years. While most filmmakers would put an Academy Award on that pedestal, Baker has constantly been focused more on the world movietheater phase than the Hollywood one. “I thinkabout it the end-all, be-all,” he informs Little Gold Men. “You’re being acknowledged by your peers, by very renowned artists who have either been at Cannes or have had unbelievable work of theirs wellknown in the past. So then to be renowned by them, it simply suggests whatever.”
Baker, whose movies consistof Tangerine, The Florida Project, and Red Rocket, won the Palme for Anora, his stunning movie focused on a stripper and sex employee called Anora (she goes by Ani), who falls for the eccentric kid of a Russian billionaire. They get married, however his household quickly stepsin to pressure them to get their maritalrelationship annulled. The film functions a knockout efficiency by lead Mikey Madison, who is currently amass