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Rebecca Cleman
Life’s a Beach
By
Rebecca Cleman
October 21, 2024
Into the limelight: in settings both grim and glamorous, Sean Baker's
Anora
repeatedly shows how despair is the bedrock for the false-front distractions of American kitsch