With his fractured fairy tale about a stripper who falls for the son of a Russian oligarch, the filmmaker evokes the spirit of ’70s cinema while eliciting a star-making turn from Mikey Madison.
The 28- minute thriller sequence, a tour de force worthy of Hitchcock, comes about an hour in. Up until then, Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning movie has been an R-rated version of. “Basically a romantic comedy, maybe a dirty romantic comedy, but a romantic comedy,” says the American indie auteur.
When Ivan’s folks hear of the wedding, they flip out. They call Toros, their fixer in Brighton Beach. The reluctant Armenian enforcer, played by Sean Baker regular Karren Karagulian, drops everything , picks up a couple of goons and heads out to Ivan’s to get this marriage annulled. Eydelshteyn made a distinctive costume choice for his audition. It was the first thing that jumped out at Quan.
“He was completely naked!” says Quan. “His butt right out there, wearing a beanie, sunglasses and vaping as he delivered his lines.” And while he had never previously directed a movie about the extremely opulent, Baker knew what their lives looked like thanks to a gig filming high-end wedding videos.
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