Inventing Anna

  • 19 Feb - 25 Feb, 2022
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It’s 2017. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announces the indictment of Anna Sorokin – also known as Anna Delvey (Julia Garner) on more than a few counts of grand larceny and theft of services. There’s a small writeup about her arrest in the Post, but for the most part, Anna Delvey’s story flies under the radar. That is until journalist Vivian Kent (Anna Chlumsky) hears about it. Sensing the potential in the story, she brings it to her editors at Manhattan Magazine, who quickly shoot her down. Anna is remanded to Rikers Island until her trial. Behind her editors’ backs, Vivian writes Anna an impassioned letter, hoping she’ll have the chance to go visit her in person. Vivian makes it to Rikers, where she meets Anna for the first time. She doesn’t agree to an interview quite yet, but their meeting only motivates Vivian to dig deeper. When Vivian finds out that Anna is set to take a plea deal, begins to panic: no trial means no story. With some help from Anna’s Instagram, Vivian begins talking to people from her past, putting together a bizarrely inconsistent character sketch of the apparent German heiress. On the big day in court, Anna surprises everyone – including Todd – when she changes her mind about the deal and declares that she wants a trial. And so the story begins.

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