‘Anora’ ending explained: do Ani and Vanya have a future together?

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Oscar-buzzy film Anora is in cinemas now, but do lead characters Ani and Vanya have a future together at the end of the film?The acclaimed independent film sees rising star Mikey Madison (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Scream) playing Anora ‘Ani’ Mikheeva, a stripper at a high-end Manhattan club, who meets Ivan ‘Vanya’ Zakharov (Mark Eydelshteyn), the wayward son of a rich Russian oligarch.Vanya is immature and unreliable, but Ani strikes up a meaningful relationship with him, eventually leaving her job and marrying him, much to the consternation of Vanya’s wealthy parents.The film is written and directed by Baker, whose previous films have included the celebrated indie films Tangerine, The Florida Project and Red Rocket.

Anora premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May, where it won the Palme d’Or Award, the first American film to do so since Terrence Malick’s The Tree Of Life in 2011.NME spoke to Madison ahead of the film’s release, who gave insight into her relationship with her character. “I was excited about playing a character like this, because she’s very complicated,” she said. “I always wanted an audience to recognise her pain underneath everything.”“She’s a very vulnerable person on the inside.

There are times where she’s very hurt, very sad, but she’s constantly covering it up. She doesn’t want anyone to see her crack.”Discussing the fact that Baker actually wrote the Anora script specifically for her, Madison added: “It’s very meaningful for someone to see something in you that nobody had really seen before, or given me an opportunity to show.”After the couple elope to Las Vegas to marry, the news reaches Vanya’s parents Nikolai and Galina back in Russia, who immediately fly to New York to confront them and.