With his fractured fairy tale about a stripper who falls for the son of a Russian oligarch, the filmmaker evokes the spirit of ’70s cinema while eliciting a star-making turn from Mikey Madison.

Imagining “Anora” without its hero location is impossible: an enormous glass mansion overlooking the Mill Basin in Brooklyn.

Anora's Mikey Madison on doing her own stunts, learning Russian and portraying sex work respectfully: "That was the ultimate ...