It often plays like an attempt to force coherence on anĪre-as Internet thinkpieces are found of saying-problematic, particularly the violence that Sin-Dee inflicts on Dinah, grabbing and dragging and lifting and even slapping her repeatedly, over the course of several scenes.
Toward their supposedly inevitable collision. Storytelling threads that converge there haven't been properly guided Meltdown, but it nearly implodes the movie, because it goes and on and on, and the various The ending seems to be aiming for a spectacular, screwball Some of the dialogue sounds too improvised (even if it was Quite a bit, "Tangerine" has a brief running time but still feels padded Recent American indies " Gabriel" and " Runoff," both of which I liked None of this should imply that the film is a flawless masterpiece. This is a minor point in the movie's greater scheme, but it seems like one key to appreciating the movie's specialness.
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You almost never see a Los Angeles movie about people who don't own cars. Long sections of "Tangerine" consist of shots of people walking and walking and walking and walking to get anywhere in Los Angeles, sometimes after having waited on a bus that seemed as though it would never arrive, or taking a cab because they were too old or too drunk to drive their own vehicle, or because they don't have a vehicle, or can't have one. The originality extends to the setting and how it's presented. Mainstream indie cinema usually offers, and the film is most thrilling for that It creates its own world, one with differentĭefinitions of "normal" or "acceptable" than Hollywood or even Type only to discover that she has a vagina, and angrily demands that Scenes (in every sense), Razmik picks up a prostitute that he assumes is his Named Razmik ( Karren Karagulian) who is married and has a child butįrequents transgender prostitutes on the side. The second strand belongs to an Armenian cabdriver When she's not chasing after her friend and inquiring about the targets Her perform that night at a local nightclub she hands out postcards One involves Alexandra's attempts to get everyone to come see Provides the film's main action, but there are a couple of parallel Whose blond whiteness and God-given ladyparts amount to a double insult.ĭuring the second half, she's looking for her pimp, Chester (James Half of the movie looking for the girlfriend, Dinah (Mickey O'Hagan), Into sullen rage and stalks through the neighborhood.
The result is at once edgy and glossy, adjectives you don't normally see paired. Super-saturated to the point where Sin-Dee and Alexandra might as wellīe characters in a Technicolor musical. The movie was shot with an Anamorphic widescreen attachment, and the colors are Performers' energy and humor, and by Baker and Radium Cheng's innovative photography. The scene lasts several minutes and is carried entirely by the Of "Tangerine," a conversation near the front window of a coffee shop. This betrayal is established in the opening scene In love with cheated on her while she was away-and with a cisgenderįemale, of all things. Learns from her best friend Alexandra ( Mya Taylor) that the pimp she's Rella ( Kitana Kiki Rodriguez), who gets out of jail after six weeks and As writtenīy Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch and directed by Baker, it's assured and immensely likable, and truly
That description sounds like it could have been written as part of a parody of a film festival schedule. On Christmas Eve, shot with an iPhone camera. "Tangerine" is a comedy about a transgender prostitute looking for her pimp's girlfriend
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