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Brooklyn's Brighton Beach Is Ready For Its Closeup in ‘Anora’
18.10.2024 - 17:23 / cntraveler.com
South Brooklyn is a lot of things. It’s an amusement park, both literally thanks to Coney Island and its thrill rides and figuratively because of the eccentric boardwalk of Brighton Beach lined with bars and restaurants open late into the night. It’s also home to New York City's Eastern European community, one rich with culture and characters. With the limited release of the film Anora on October 18, which centers around the latter, South Brooklyn now becomes something else: a movie star.
Filmmaker Sean Baker always knew he wanted to make a movie in this part of the borough—especially as it's often overlooked by pop culture in favor of more touristed neighborhoods closer to the East River. He and longtime friend and collaborator Karren Karuglian, an Armenian American actor who hails from South Brooklyn, spoke about doing so for years but held off until inspiration delivered the right plot. Anora, a Cinderella story of sorts about Russian-American sex worker Ani, who gets swept off her feet by the spoiled, itinerant son of a Russian oligarch holing up in his parents’ Sheepshead Bay mansion, was that movie.
Anora, a Cinderella story of sorts about Russian-American sex worker Ani, is set in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach neighborhood.
Below, Baker joins Condé Nast Traveler—fresh off a plane from London—alongside production designer Stephen Phelps to talk about this charismatic slice of New York City. From landmark establishments like Tatiana Restaurant & Nightclub to the regional airports that real-life oligarchs would (and do) fly privately into, Anora has it all.
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What drew you to make a movie in South Brooklyn?
Sean Baker: Karren Karuglian, who plays Toros in the film, we go way back. He's been in all my films. We've been talking about telling a story [set] in the Russian American community in Brighton Beach and Coney Island for 20 years now. We just couldn't figure out the plot—until recently. But it was the desire to shoot there that made this film. Number one: it’s culturally rich. Number two: it’s visually very exciting.
Coney Island, in some ways, feels stuck in time. You know, the amusement park and everything around it feels like it hasn’t changed in decades. The Cyclone [wooden roller coaster] is almost 100 years old. I find it very cinematic, and I wanted to shoot it almost like postcard images that really take the landscape in. It was important for me to stay geographically accurate, you know, as the characters go on this tour through these three neighborhoods of South Brooklyn: Coney Island, Brighton Beach, and Sheepshead Bay, which is more
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