Tangerine (2015)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 88m
Director: Sean Baker
Cast: Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian, Mickey O'Hagan
Synopsis:
Christmas Eve in downtown West Hollywood and two transsexual hookers celebrate their reunion at the neighbourhood donut bar. The rest of the evening is a spiralling travesty, as one combs the area for her errant pimp/boyfriend, the other pays to perform her singing act to an all but empty bar, and an Armenian cabbie who passes for one of their regulars has his mother-in-law on his tail.
Review:
This dip beneath the murky waters of the Los Angeles swamp is an education if nothing else, with subtitles a definite must provided you don't mind seeing some of the language in print! The thing is, you actually start falling for the sassy, foulmouthed friends, who may call each other 'bitch' every other sentence (doubtless wishful thinking) but would not be without one another's company or esteem. One raucous, farcical paean to the sex trade, shot on an iPhone and selfie stick, it shines a light on the defiant recipients of society's worst indignities and demonstrates, lo and behold, that they are human after all.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 88m
Director: Sean Baker
Cast: Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian, Mickey O'Hagan
Synopsis:
Christmas Eve in downtown West Hollywood and two transsexual hookers celebrate their reunion at the neighbourhood donut bar. The rest of the evening is a spiralling travesty, as one combs the area for her errant pimp/boyfriend, the other pays to perform her singing act to an all but empty bar, and an Armenian cabbie who passes for one of their regulars has his mother-in-law on his tail.
Review:
This dip beneath the murky waters of the Los Angeles swamp is an education if nothing else, with subtitles a definite must provided you don't mind seeing some of the language in print! The thing is, you actually start falling for the sassy, foulmouthed friends, who may call each other 'bitch' every other sentence (doubtless wishful thinking) but would not be without one another's company or esteem. One raucous, farcical paean to the sex trade, shot on an iPhone and selfie stick, it shines a light on the defiant recipients of society's worst indignities and demonstrates, lo and behold, that they are human after all.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 88m
Director: Sean Baker
Cast: Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian, Mickey O'Hagan
Synopsis:
Christmas Eve in downtown West Hollywood and two transsexual hookers celebrate their reunion at the neighbourhood donut bar. The rest of the evening is a spiralling travesty, as one combs the area for her errant pimp/boyfriend, the other pays to perform her singing act to an all but empty bar, and an Armenian cabbie who passes for one of their regulars has his mother-in-law on his tail.
Review:
This dip beneath the murky waters of the Los Angeles swamp is an education if nothing else, with subtitles a definite must provided you don't mind seeing some of the language in print! The thing is, you actually start falling for the sassy, foulmouthed friends, who may call each other 'bitch' every other sentence (doubtless wishful thinking) but would not be without one another's company or esteem. One raucous, farcical paean to the sex trade, shot on an iPhone and selfie stick, it shines a light on the defiant recipients of society's worst indignities and demonstrates, lo and behold, that they are human after all.