Tangerine
Director: Sean Baker
2015 / 88min / DCP
Shot on the onboard camera of an iPhone 5S on the streets of Los Angeles with a distinctive 16:9 frame and the frenetic freedom that comes of liberation from more onerous equipment, Baker’s brassy, brazen, bad behavior-packed fifth feature follows a transgender sex worker, Sin-Dee Rella (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez), fresh out of jail on Christmas Eve, as she teams up with her friend Alexandra (Mya Taylor) to hunt down and dress down her two-timing pimp boyfriend, Chester (James Ransone), their odyssey through the tattier blocks of Tinseltown accompanied by a clamorous high-energy soundtrack of trap rap, electronica, and bubblegum pop. A triumph of ample imagination over slender means, pointing a way forward for American no-budget filmmaking.
Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
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