Spirit Entertainment brings the Oscar nominated Anora to The Criterion Collection this May

 

Contemporary cinema’s foremost chronicler of American dreamers and schemers hustling on the margins of capitalist promise, Sean Baker, reaches new heights of mastery with this audacious anti–Cinderella story—a whirlwind neorealist screwball comedy with an aching heart. In an electric, star-is-born performance, Mikey Madison soars as Anora, an enterprising, ferociously foulmouthed Brooklyn erotic dancer and sex worker whose Prince Not-So-Charming comes along in the form of a Russian oligarch’s wild-child son (Mark Eydelshteyn). This is the beginning of a fractured fairy tale—also featuring standout performances from Karren Karagulian, Yura Borisov, and Vache Tovmasyan—that turns the cruel realities of class inside out. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for six Academy Awards® including Best Picture, and seven BAFTA Awards including Best Film, Anora confirms Baker as one of our preeminent auteurs.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

New 4K digital master, supervised by director Sean Baker and producer Alex Coco, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack

[UHD ONLY] One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features

Two audio commentaries: one featuring Baker, Coco, producer Samantha Quan, and cinematographer Drew Daniels, and the other featuring Baker and actors Yura Borisov, Mark Eydelshteyn, Karren Karagulian, Mikey Madison, and Vache Tovmasyan

New making-of documentary

New interviews with Baker and Madison

Cannes Film Festival press conference

Q&A with Madison and actor-stripper Lindsey Normington

Deleted scenes

Trailers

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing and English descriptive audio

PLUS: Essays by film critic Dennis Lim and author Kier-La Janisse

New cover by Bianca Parkes and GrandSon, with photography by Max Abadian

AVAILABLE TO BUY ON 4K UHD FROM AMAZON, HMVRAREWAVES AND ZAVVI
AVAILABLE TO BUY ON BLU-RAY FROM AMAZON, HMVRAREWAVES AND ZAVVI

Also coming to The Criterion Collection are these three titles in April 2025

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