To vomit. Outraged spectators testify on TikTok about their particularly grueling screenings of the film Anora.
This tragicomic portrait of a dancer and sex worker marrying the son of a Russian oligarch won the Palme d'Or at the last Cannes Film Festival. It seduced its president, Greta Gerwig, with its comic timing, its freedom of tone, and the astonishing performance of its star: the revelation Mikey Madison. Phenomenal actress to whom we have dedicated a large portrait on this page.
Yes, but some spectators don't care about these details.
They go to a movie theater for other reasons. Indeed, spectators claim that men would have outright masturbated in front of the sex and nudity scenes in Sean Baker's film. Sequences particularly present in its first part. Noises and ambiguous gestures leave little ambiguity about these attitudes displayed in the middle of a cinema.
“A friend came across an old guy jerking off under his jacket during the movie“, we can read in a TikTok post. “I came out of the cinema, from the 10 a.m. screening of Anora, and I heard the sound of belts, heavy breathing… from the first ten minutes of the film“.
The initial testimony of the disgusted spectator reports the presence of several men, aged between 50 and 70 years old.
“After an hour, men left the theater when they understood that the film would no longer offer them what they had come for.“, we can still read. A situation far from exceptional probably, and these sickening stories do not stop there.
“Hand to the b*”, “I’m stunned”, “predators”: the sessions of the Anora film turn into a nightmare
It's hell: not only are these acts of sexual exhibitions comparable to assault but, moreover, they go against the purpose of the film, which the filmmaker Sean Baker dedicates to the rights of the always ignored sex workers .
Ignored, yes: just listen to this testimony from the iconic Zahia about “putophobia” as well as this other very strong statement that we are relaying. But unfortunately, the nightmare is not over if we trust these testimonies.
“Six men left the screening with their heads bowed before the lights came back on”, “Men pay for a screening to sully a film and empty it of its meaning”, “I am stunned”, “We have raised generations predators hand to cock“, still relate these publications relayed on TikTok and which, we strongly imagine, testify to attitudes that are far from rare. Behind the Palme d'Or, the pigs.
And a blazing contempt for what a film bearing the name of its protagonist wishes, precisely, to express about her – particularly during its second hour. But perhaps we shouldn't ask too much of these spectators who are not very inclined to this kind of analysis…
