Anora, Russian triumph? – SME culture

Moscow, BRATISLAVA. It will not pass the day when it would not stop him on the street, in the shop, at the gas station. “As if I won the gold medal at Olympics”Says Yura Borisov.

Yura Borisov is not an athlete, but actor and last Sunday applied for his first Oscara.

He was born in Moscow and purposefully worked to become one of the best. When he played a drug addician, he underwent an experiment with drug use. When he played a gangster, he had tore his tooth. He is extremely concentrated to ultimately make him work.

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The world audience could see it in the excellent Finnish film Coupe no. 6 or in the film Petrov's Fever, which was shot by politically uncomfortable director Kirill Serebrennikov. In Russiahe managed to please the Kremlin several times when he received a role in stories about Kalashnikov, Russian soldiers or Pushkin.

Those who do not follow him at close range may have a problem to include it. They can't read it, they don't know who he is.

Yura Borisov in Anora. (Source: TASR/AP)

The Russians cannot be proud of this

Yura Boris can be socially and politically inconspicuous. After the attack of Russia at Ukraine He said yes or no. But he quietly checked out of all the film projects in which there was talk about the army.

And, on the contrary, he shone in Anore, the independent film by American director Sean Baker, who triumphed in several Oscar categories, including the main one.

Russian journalists and critics who live and work in the West are surprised that the state power has not yet included him on the black list. Especially the legendary director Nikita Michalkov is upset.

“Anora, what is it, please for the movie? I see just a disgusting Russian oligarch, his disgusting wife, and then a gangster who is a little humanized Russian, ”LE Figaro quotes him.

Michalkov has the right to be irritated.

Anora She is a story of a young woman employed in a nightclub who believes that her son of rich Russian oligarchs would like her. When his parents learn this, they put on an anor of their ejectors to intimidate her, and they will expose her to even greater humiliation than he experiences daily in their work.

Although it is a sad story, it is relieved by humor from the inability of men to be afraid of.

When the film premiered last year at the Cannes Festival, where he won the Golden Palm, the audience was happy to enjoy it. It was not apparent that the Russians could be proud of such an image, but it turned out that Anora was very popular at home.

The embarrassing desires of the Russian elite

After getting to the streaming platform Kinopoisk in January, it was watched by 2.4 million viewers, the New York Times writes.

As Disney and Sony withdrew from the Russian market, Russians have few opportunities to see films from the US. When they learned that Yura Borisov was the role of one of the Russian gangsters (by the way, the most human of them) nominated for an Oscar, Yuramania was pulled off.

The pro -Kremlin media evaluate this ironically, in the fool of the fool they see the « embarrassing desire » of the Russian elite for recognition from the West. « It needs it as drug addicts need their matros, » they comment.

Russian actor Yura Borisov at Oscars. (Source: TASR/AP)

Moreover, to anore, the elitaries are said to be the hope that the West will re -evaluate its attitude to the Russian sportsas well as to Russian art, they will take them at mercy and the Russians will become legitimate participants in world events.

The desire for Yura Boris to win an Oscar did not fulfill the Russians. For them, however, it is important that in Anore he was given a dignified role worthy of Chekhov's quality, writes The New York Times. That they celebrate the American film does not hinder them. Part of their adoration is that they have appropriated Sean Baker and are spiritually considered by the Russian director.

And he won the Oscar.