This year’s boisterous Palme d’Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival is a New York odyssey that is the most immersive and accomplished comic adventure yet from American original Sean Baker (The Florida Project, Red Rocket, Tangerine).
 
In a thrilling, star-making performance, Mikey Madison plays Ani, a tough-as-nails exotic dancer from Brighton Beach suddenly thrust into the lap of luxury when she is whisked away on a whirlwind romance with Ivan (Mark Eydelshteyn), an obscenely wealthy young customer at her strip club. However, Ivan turns out to be the spoiled scion of Russian oligarchs, and Ani’s wild ride is anything but your average rags-to-riches story. Reminiscent of his previous works, Sean Baker takes a good-natured, sociological approach to his subject matter and milieu, and here he has created an authentic 21st-century screwball comedy that tackles sex, love, class, and money with matter-of-fact directness.