5/8/2023 0 Comments Anna delvey movie![]() As New York’s Jessica Pressler documented, through a web of lies, wire transfers, and the right RSVPs, Delvey secured hotel rooms and nearly founded a “Soho House–ish type club” she wanted to christen the “Anna Delvey Foundation.” Her audacity! Her gall! Her pure ability to finesse! Delvey’s story - which features a cameo from Macaulay Culkin and introduces the world to former 11 Howard concierge Neffatari “Neff” Davis - makes Catch Me If You Can look like an amateur hour that just happened to get the Steven Spielberg treatment.ĭelvey’s unusual rise and fall is just one of those “only in New York” tales: Where else could an unknown stay at the right hotel and end up at the right parties in order to enlist a powerful banker to advocate on her behalf? This story has everything: humor, intrigue, curious accents, and a trip to Ibiza! In other words, it’s ripe for a movie adaptation. ![]() Like Delvey’s persona, “Inventing Anna” lives mostly on the surface, and though you might believe it for a moment, that feeling will surely pass.With little more than a pair of oversize sunglasses and a few crisp $100 bills slipped to the right people, the now-infamous Anna Delvey scammed her way into being a New York City socialite. “Inventing Anna” devotes plenty of attention to glamorous locales (Paris, Ibiza, Morocco) and Kent/Pressler’s attempt to revive her reputation as a journalist after falling victim to a hoax - that’s based on a true story too - but fails to unravel the case’s most important question: Not who would fall for this, but why? (And plenty of people did, despite the apparent warning signs: According to Pressler, Garner‘s version of the voice is “exactly” like the real deal.) With a victim-of-the-week episode structure, the series delivers mini-portraits of those Delvey swindled, mostly without digging into their motivations. She’ll pay them back as soon as her money arrives! It’d be best if they invested now, of course, before the project takes off. New York City bankers and philanthropists, represented here by the likes of Anthony Edwards and Kate Burton, aren’t so lucky: Anna convinces them she has enough capital in her overseas trust fund to erect a large complex in the city dedicated to the arts and promises to transfer funds once she’s able to cut through the international red tape. Personal trainer Kacy (Laverne Cox) is one of a few people in Anna’s orbit who senses something is wrong, and she’s ultimately one of the only ones who doesn’t get hurt. The vapid trio’s collective obsession with living large on social media is fun to despise. Photo editor Rachel (Katie Lowes) and hotel clerk Neff (Alexis Floyd) follow her like thirsty Heathers vying for her validation. Her sycophantic friends aren’t much better. She intimidates with moneyed arrogance and, when that fails, manipulates by any means necessary (guilt, sex appeal, grossly transparent praise, even threats of self-harm). Anna is an entitled monster much of the time. If you enjoy a hate-watch, “Inventing Anna” at least has that going for it. The garbled Russian/German/snooty America mix sounds utterly ridiculous. The bizarre accent, however, is problematic. She saunters through Bergdorf Goodman like a queen, but that subtle tick in her lip or awkward hair flip connotes she’s on the edge of ruin. ![]() Anna Sorokin, a bright young thing who befriended “New York’s party people,” as the story had it, and used them to prop up her life of lies and excess.Īnna is not a relatable personality, but Garner connects through her character’s idiosyncrasies: She may be conniving, but look closely and there are flashes of doubt and insecurity in her otherwise ice-cold gaze. The series, about a self-proclaimed German heiress who conned millions from Manhattan’s rich and powerful, is based on a true story, though all 10 hourlong episodes begin with a disclaimer that the show is true “except for all the parts that are totally made up.” What’s clear is that the narrative is adapted from “ Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It,” Jessica Pressler’s 2018 New York magazine article about Anna Delvey, a.k.a. But in the spirit of fixing something that’s not broken, scripted dramas, based on docuseries, books or magazine articles, which were in turn retellings of true stories, are now vying for space in the true-ish crime world.īefore “The Dropout” (Theranos) and “WeCrashed” (WeWork) arrive next month, Shonda Rhimes’ drama “Inventing Anna” premieres Friday on Netflix. No need to labor over fictional narratives about brazen frauds when reality has given us Elizabeth Holmes and Bernie Madoff. From “Fyre Fraud” to “The Tinder Swindler,” con artists and their schemes have provided an endless font of material for television docuseries.
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