When yesterday afternoon I posted that Sean Baker's Anora is getting a Criterion release I did a quick search to see what images of Russian actor Yura Borisov I'd posted before so I didn't repeat myself and I discovered that I've barely posted any! Blaspheme! (There is this one post and that is it.) I had hopped onto his bandwagon even before Anora when I saw him the wonderful 2021 movie Comparment Number 6 (here is my review of that movie where I called him "a moody revelation") and I had even gathered up an entire folder of pictures of him to post at some point... then didn't. Well that was the reminder I needed -- I'm only posting one photoshoot of him this morning, but it's a good one...
... even if he's got hair and a beard and looks very very different than the hairless beauty we've seen on the Anora campaign trail. But still a beauty! Let this be my FYC to awards voters -- I'm not a huge fan of Anora but let's get Yura that Supporting Actor nomination -- he earned it. (I actually think he's the best thing in the movie, even better than Mikey Madison. He's the lynchpin without which none of it would work and he judges every moment of that performance perfectly, including his reactions to my biggest problem with the movie, i.e. the homophobia it casually tosses around without ever having anything to say about it.) All that said let us now hit the jump for a whole lot of Yura to stare at...
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Burying the lede, eh?
Totally agree. He is the one I looked at during the entire film. He's great to look at, but more than that, he is the silent heart of the film. I wanted the two of them together at the end, but he may be too good for Ani. Silent performances don't often get flowers. Glad he is getting his.
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