Tangerine film review12/13/2023 If LA, as we’re told, is “a beautifully wrapped lie”, represents an admirable attempt to peel back those layers. The trouble comes from inability to pinpoint exactly what was so amazing, because all elements of the film are simple by themselves and the quality seems to stem from something in-between rather than the. To talk, let alone write, about films like Tangerines is difficult. With Dree Hemingway, Boonee, Stella Maeve, Sheri Vecchio. ![]() But there are transporting moments amid the crack and catfights: most notably a backroom reconciliation lit, gorgeously, by a glitterball. Review of Tangerines, by Saulius Kovalskas (Lithuania) for Wader. Although funny (Alexandra describes Chester’s room as smelling of “homeless”) and convincing, most of the characters besides Alexandra are obnoxious, and thus hard to relate to. Of course, when you look for it as Sin-Dee (and, indeed, Baker) does, there’s drama on every sun-bleached street corner – not least the eccentrics encountered by Razmik (Karren Karaguilian) in the back of his cab – and the film fizzes with borrowed backstories. So Sin-Dee sets out to track her down, promising “no drama”, which will become something of an ironic mantra. Alexandra lets on that Sin-Dee’s boyfriend (read: pimp) Chester (James Ransom from Sinister) has been having sex with a “fish” (a derogatory term for a non-transgender woman) called Dinah (Mickey O’Hagan). Like Coffee and Cigarettes or Smoke, but on substances a little stronger, it gives voice to the city’s prostitutes, pushers and passers-by, in the process rendering their extraordinary – to us, at least – lives ordinary.įiery Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez), just out of prison for drug possession, meets best friend and fellow sex worker Alexandra (Mya Taylor) in a donut shop on Santa Monica Boulevard. Sean Baker has established himself as one those film makers who has captured the voice of those trying to find the American Dream. ![]() (Mandarin dialogue) The tale of a father searching real and imaginary. ![]() Facebook 0 Twitter 0 LinkedIn Pinterest 0. With: Lei Jiayin, Dong Zijian, Yang Mi, Wang Shengdi, Yu Hewei, Guo Jingfei, Tong Liya, Dong Jie, Liu Tianzuo, Li Binghui. Shot on the fly, using iPhones with prototype anamorphic lenses, it features a cast of transgender women, most of them making their acting debuts. Home Film Reviews Film Review Tangerine (2015) Film Review Tangerine (2015) January 8, 2023, Paul Devine, Leave a comment. The making of Sean Baker’s LA street drama must have been even more remarkable than the film itself.
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