![]() ![]() It's an accomplished piece of filmmaking, shot on the fly, but brilliantly shaped, edited, scored and performed. That's certainly a great PR hook, but it's important to say that this isn't a primitive work. Come on.ĮDELSTEIN: "Tangerine" is probably best known as the Sundance Festival winner that was shot entirely on an iPhone 5s with a $7.99 app to boost the definition. ![]() RODRIGUEZ: (As Sin-Dee) I promise, no drama, Alexandra. TAYLOR: (As Alexandra) Look at me in my eyes and promise. RODRIGUEZ: (As Sin-Dee) I promise, I promise. I will go with you under one condition - you must promise me that there's not going to be any drama because as soon as there is some drama, I'm outta there. KITANA KIKI RODRIGUEZ: (As Sin-Dee) You're just going to come out here and give me all this information and have me gonna handle it by myself? You're the one that told me anyways. MYA TAYLOR: (Alexandra) I cannot do this. Cindy's response is to charge out the door, ready to wreak havoc in search of her man and his fish, and she wants Alexandra for moral support. Over a shared doughnut, her black transgender prostitute best friend, Alexandra, lets it slip that Sin-Dee's boyfriend and pimp, Chester, has been sleeping with a fish - that is a slang term they use for a biological woman, and white to boot. It's Christmas Eve day in a seedy section of Los Angeles, to which a motor-mouth blonde Hispanic transgender prostitute named Sin-Dee - that's S-I-N hyphen D-E-E - returns after 28 days in the slammer. Film critic David Edelstein has this review.ĭAVID EDELSTEIN, BYLINE: Sean Baker's oblique but boisterous farce "Tangerine" takes its title from the movie's orange hue, which evokes the low, slanted winter sun and suggests a perpetual 5 p.m. Much of Baker's script was constructed out of stories he heard from the actors themselves, and he shot the entire film on an iPhone with an assortment of low-cost adapters. One of the sensations in this year's Sundance Film Festival was Sean Baker's film, "Tangerine," which is set in the Los Angeles subculture of transgender sex workers. ![]()
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