The Most Euphoric Needle Drop of the Year Is in ‘Anora’
Take That’s “Greatest Day (Robin Schulz Rework)” is the EDM anthem I didn’t know I needed.
The song pumps and blares twice during Anora, director Sean Baker’s adrenaline shot of a new movie about a Brooklyn sex worker who marries a fabulously wealthy Russian oligarch’s son. It’s the very first thing you hear, soundtracking a series of lap dances in a strip club, as the film’s star, Ani, sways her tinsel-flecked hair. And it comes back at the end of the blissy first act, when Ani and her new fiancé, Ivan, cap their whooshing romance with a quickie wedding at Las Vegas’ Little White Chapel. “Oh fuck yeah, I do!” Ani declares, in ripped cutoffs and a sheer bustier, before the pair hit a casino and declare their love to anyone who’ll listen underneath a giant screen of digital fireworks. The wedding montage in particular is an instant classic, made even more euphoric by the music pushing it to dizzier and dizzier heights. Holy shit, what is this song?! I thought in the theater over the weekend, gobsmacked.
