11/27/2022 0 Comments Anna delvey documentary hbo![]() With the Delvey story, you have one sullen white woman looking out for herself, and the writers had to stretch out her story into nine hours of marathonable episodes. ANNA DELVEY DOCUMENTARY HBO MOVIEThe movie successfully turned the scam into a compelling character study, especially as the two masterminds (played by Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu) clash and the whole thing implodes. Pressler also wrote the article that inspired the 2019 film Hustlers, which was about a team of strippers who robbed their wealthy white male clients. Then a 2018 Jessica Pressler New York magazine article fleshed out the story a bit more, explaining how she’d also been trying to get funding for an Anna Delvey Foundation supposedly to benefit artists. The so-called Soho grifter became a local New York tabloid curiosity as a “wannabe” German socialite when she got kicked out of New York hotels like the Beekman and the W for nonpayment. The outlines of the Anna Sorokin story have, by now, become pop cultural legend. Instead, the show sticks too closely to its protagonists’ own script to really tell us anything new. The white girl grifter protagonist (played perfectly by Ozark’s Julia Garner) was the perfect vehicle for producing biting commentary on contemporary class and gender mores - from venture capitalism to the philanthropic industrial complex. The new ambitious Shonda Rhimes–created extravaganza Inventing Anna, about the fake German heir Anna Delvey (born Sorokin) and her artist philanthropy aspirations, had so much potential. Exploring the fraught role of women protagonists in these stories could illuminate the ways, say, heterosexual romance or venture capital “feminism” are cons themselves. More rarely, they’re depicted as perpetrators - like Elizabeth Holmes and her nonstarter startup. We’re used to seeing women as victims in these stories, like Debra Newell in the Dirty John podcast, the women in the Netflix documentary Tinder Swindler, or the majority of the women in Lifetime movies. Like all crime stories, conning has the ease of a readymade narrative: There’s the buildup of the enterprise, the dramatic collapse, and then some comeuppance for the scammer or, depending on the moment’s mood, a celebration of their Robin Hood–esque scheme. ![]()
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