Tangerine
Sean Baker / US, 2015 / 88 min.
Tangerine was entirely shot on an iPhone 5s. This stylistic tour de force about transgender prostitutes in Los Angeles was a sensation at the Sundance Film Festival. A deep-tan tragicomedy full of energy and heady humour, Tangerine drags you into LA’s red light district of Highland Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard.
Sean Baker shot his low-budget film in dreamy hues, but he also reveals the dope-ridden hyperreality of his protagonists as they hang out on the sun-bleached and grimiest street corners of Tinseltown. Baker (The Florida Project) shows how they cope with the mundane absurdity of their lives and lets us in on a subculture we rarely get to see in the cinema.
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Director
Sean Baker
Production year
2015
Country
US
Original title
Tangerine
Length
88 min.
Language
English, Armenian
Subtitles
ENG
Format
DCP
Part of
Previously Unreleased
Screened at prominent national and international festivals, yet never released in Dutch cinemas. Quite unjustly so, Eye Filmmuseum thinks, and so it has once again brought an exceptional selection of films from international festivals to the Netherlands.
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