Synopsis
It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles, including an Armenian family dealing with their own repercussions of infidelity.
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Cast
- Kitana Kiki RodriguezSin-Dee Rella
- Mya TaylorAlexandra
- Karren KaragulianRazmik
- Mickey O'HagenDinah
- Alla TumanianAshken
- James RansoneChester
- Luiza NersisyanYeva
- Arsen GrigoryanKaro
- Ian EdwardsNash
- Scott KrinskyParsimonious John
Recommendations
- 100
Screen Daily
Tangerine paints a portrait of transgender sex workers and their clients that pulses with raunchy energy and compassionate humour. It’s a bracing slice of American indie film-making. - 91
IndieWire
Baker once again manages to match underrepresented faces in American cinema with material that lets their personalities shine. - 91
The Playlist
Utilizing underseen subjects, [Baker] captures their world in a thoughtful and artful way, and it also happens to be a damn fun ride. - 91
Entertainment Weekly
Tangerine is touching for its non-condescending stance toward working girls and the spirit of the sidewalk. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
The film's smart craftsmanship is ultimately less noteworthy than its humanizing, prejudice-challenging immersion into the lives of people who inhabit L.A.'s low-end drug and sex industry. - 90
Variety
Writer-director Sean Baker’s sun-scorched, street-level snapshot is a work of rueful, matter-of-fact insight and unapologetically wild humor that draws a motley collection of funny, sad and desperate individuals into its protagonists’ orbit. - 90
Village Voice
In the early minutes you might not be sure what you're watching. Tangerine's a comedy, of course, laced with rambunctious, exuberantly ragged dialogue. But 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. - 75
Slant Magazine
Its triumph is primarily a matter of style, a visionary revelation every bit as expressionistic as its main character's electric sense of shade.
