![]() "RAUNCHY, ABRASIVE AND SHOCKINGLY SWEET." A freewheeling, raucously funny street opera with a sweet and soulful center, pulsing with enough verve and vitality to erase any whiff of the “issue film” it might have been." "EXACTLY THE TYPE OF MOVIE THAT CAN SPARK A REVOLUTION." A dizzy, often exuberant down-and-dirty romp." A neo-screwball chase flick with a dash of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. "A TOUGH YET TENDER, GRITTY YET GORGEOUS MOVIE MADE WITH INGENIOUS SKILL. "LOUD, FEROCIOUS AND TREMENDOUSLY FUNNY." "RIOTOUS, DARING, AND CRACKLING WITH VITALITY." It’s a pleasure to tag along for the day." An intimate, funny, and surprisingly poignant portrait in miniature of a few fascinating American lives." "A BEAUTIFULLY FILMED, SWOONINGLY SCORED, GRACEFULLY PERFORMED WONDER OF A MOVIE. Tangerine may not be the summer comedy we asked for, but it just might be the summer comedy we need." "ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING FILMS OF THE YEAR. By the end, Baker and his actors have led us to a place beyond comedy - you may still be laughing, but your breath catches a little on the way out." An ingenious blast of fresh air so florid and electric that it feels like a Pedro Almodóvar remake of Crank." THESE CHARACTERS DESERVE A PLACE AT THE TABLE THE WAY THIS MOVIE DESERVES A PLACE AT THE MULTIPLEX." What’s extraordinary is that it’s everything an entertaining, old-fashioned, mainstream Hollywood comedy should be and no longer is. "BOTH HILARIOUS AND HEART-ATTACK SERIOUS. A VISUALLY INNOVATIVE KNOCKOUT THAT GRABS YOU FROM THE FIRST FRAME." A groundbreaking film that leaves you in stitches while quietly breaking your heart. Seeing this represented in mainstream cinemas is encouraging, making the content of the film as relevant to contemporary times as the way it has been made."IT JUMPS OFF THE SCREEN AND WOWS YOU LIKE NOBODY'S BUSINESS. But, ultimately, Tangerine reminds us that the real violence comes from outside of this community in the perpetuation of society norms. It has its own problems with representation, particularly the reiteration of blackness and aggression in Sin Dee’s violent treatment of Dinah. It appropriates and subverts racism, misogyny, homophobia and trans phobia. ![]() Like Paris is Burning, this is a film that warrants a close up reading. Importantly, it also draws attention to the most vulnerable, those most at risk of violence, those most likely to be remembered. Tangerine offers a wildly different insight into transgender lives and could be dismissed as sensationalist if it were not filmed in a nonjudgmental way. The final showdown takes place in the Donut Hut, and the subsequent fall-out offers a surprisingly tender and compassionate insight into the multiple ways that people live on the margins, their isolation, and the importance of friendship and forgiveness. ![]() In the meantime, Alexandra walks the streets and picks up Raznik (Karren Karagulian), an Armenian cab driver who is married but frequently pays to perform oral sex on pre-operative trans women. Alexandra mistakenly guesses that she’s finished with him for sleeping around, which sets Sin Dee off on the trail of Dinah (Mickey O’Hagan) the “white fish” (slang for a white cisgendered woman) he has been cheating with. Set on Christmas Eve, Sin Dee is happy to be out of jail after a 28-day sentence and has a secret she wants to share with Alexandra about her pimp/boyfriend Chester (James Ransone). The script was co-crafted with the lead actors and draws on their own experiences and anecdotes of street work and survival around trade, transactions, drugs, pimps, friendship, betrayal, violence and care. It is filmed on a super low budget using a $8 phone app that delivers a close up, social realist edge to a story that crosses the boundaries of drama and documentary. Tangerine offers a chance to revisit these issues, and is receiving similar levels of attention. The legacy of the film can be measured in its influence at the time and it remains an important reference point in courses on LGBT history and queer studies today. Its popularity was far reaching and it drew significant attention from feminist and queer scholars offering different interpretations. ![]() Paris is Burning garnered widespread positive critical appraisal and won a Sundance Film Festival Jury prize.
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