10/7/2023 0 Comments Tangerine 2015 toreentAlexandra performs to a mostly empty bar. She reconciles with Dinah as they smoke crystal meth in the bar bathroom, and Sin-Dee applies Dinah's make-up. Sin-Dee realizes she is late for Alexandra's performance and drags Dinah there instead. Dinah taunts her for believing she is Chester's only girlfriend. She hauls her onto a bus to find Chester. Sin-Dee finds the woman she is looking for, Dinah, at a brothel in a motel. Alexandra goes to the bar for her performance, but no customers have arrived. He meets Alexandra and fellates her in a car wash, then goes home to eat Christmas dinner with his family. Razmik, an Armenian cab driver, picks up a prostitute, but ejects her from his cab when he discovers she is not transgender. Sin-Dee storms out to search the neighborhood for Chester and the woman.Īlexandra hands out flyers for her musical performance that evening, and argues with a client who refuses to pay their argument is broken up by the police. Alexandra reveals that Sin-Dee's boyfriend and pimp Chester has been cheating on her with a cisgender woman. Transgender sex worker Sin-Dee Rella, who has just finished a 28-day jail sentence, meets her friend Alexandra, another trans sex worker, at a donut shop in Hollywood on Christmas Eve. It received critical acclaim for its screenplay, direction, performances and portrayal of transgender individuals. It had a limited release on July 10, 2015, through Magnolia Pictures. Tangerine premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2015. The film was shot with three iPhone 5S smartphones. The story follows a transgender sex worker who discovers her boyfriend and pimp has been cheating on her. Funny, bleak and chaotic.Tangerine is a 2015 American comedy-drama film directed by Sean Baker, and written by Baker and Chris Bergoch, starring Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, and James Ransone. That said, although I wouldn't categorise this as enjoyable, it's still an interesting film. It plods a little in places, despite the larger than life characters and a pulsating score and Sin-Dee isn't the easiest character to like. I want to like it more than I do, maybe because I admire what it's trying to do and how it's doing it, but it's not an easy watch. Christmas in LA looks weird to me, not a hint of snow and certainly not the way this film is graded. A event Sin-Dee needs to be at, but her somewhat aggressive sleuthing is getting in the way. Apparently it's Christmas Eve and Alexandra is planning an event. The choice of kit will certainly help with this, but it doesn't feel cheap. Although cut conventionally, a lot of it feels very real, honest, unscripted. Taking to the sunkissed and dirty streets of LA, she's on a mission with friend Alexandra (Mya Taylor) to sort Chester and Dinah (Mickey O'Hagan) the girl he's cheating with out. Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) is a transgendered prostitute, who's just found out that her pimp boyfriend Chester (James Ransome) is cheating on her. Take that fact away and this is still an impressive film. IPhone 5's, three of them, with an added lens and a stabilising gimble. The first thing everyone always says about Tangerine is that it's shot on iPhones. Reviewed by garethcrook 6 / 10 Bleak, funny.
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