Sean Baker's ‘Anora’ is a riotous celebration of working-class life

Anora is a movie about working-class life, the comedy and tragedy at the margins of American life.

Sean Baker is both a humanist and a humorist, and he brings a madcap, almost screwball sense of comedy to their interplay.

It's a joyous, sad, messy, chaotic, sprawling, anything-goes romp through a very particular part of the American scene.

But people go on with their lives anyway, because their lives have value, dignity, and meaning, and they all deserve our respect. It's a movie that insists that life, however hard, is always worth living. And Anora , meanwhile, is very much worth seeing..