WUD Film Presents: Anora (2024)

USA | 139 min | R | DCP | Dir. Sean Baker  “A young escort from Brooklyn meets and impulsively marries the son of a Russian oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairy tale is threatened as his parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled,” (IMDb) “Anora” is a bawdy modern fable, populated by strippers and strongmen and brutes. Like most of Baker’s movies, it is, at its core, about the limits of the American dream, the many invisible walls that stand in the way of fantasies about equality and opportunity and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. This is a story of wealth, and power, and what love can and can’t overcome," - Alissa Wilkinson (The New York Times) Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m6UrWMl18M     For information on available assistive content for WUD Film screenings, please visit the Assistive Movie Screenings in the Marquee Theater page .   This event is intended for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff, Wisconsin Union members and their guests. Anyone can become a Wisconsin Union member .