Following the struggles of a smart hooker, who during her sentence in prison, whose life turns upside down, when her boyfriend cheats on her with another girl, the thing that challenges her, as she makes her mind to teach him a lesson.
Baker gets great, sly, unforced performances from his two leads, but it's not all a rollicking good time: There are moments of quietude, inquietude, moments when a sense of wariness and loneliness settles over the women.
Tangerine is a very dynamic film, owing to its great rhythm that oozes humor and presents these extreme and decadent characters with a great dose of sweetness. [Full Review in Spanish]
It's not the technology and law-breaking that make this movie so ingeniously unique. It's the people, the place, the electric sense of movement and the biting sense of humor.
New Zealand Herald
May 04, 2016
It exudes a terrific, urgent energy that elevates it far beyond its grubby milieu into a handsome and touching portrait of human beings struggling to stay afloat. Highly recommended.
"Tangerine" is the wildest screwball transgender comedy since Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon donned lipstick, mascara and full-tilt female get-ups in "Some Like It Hot."
The best LA Christmas movie since Die Hard, Tangerine is destined to become a landmark in American independent cinema. It is absolutely essential viewing.
Sun-baked Tangerine zips through with the raw power of an underground movie... The humour is streetwise and borders on pandemoniac, and the two leads, so nutty and yet so honest in their nuttiness, slowly grow on you.
"Tangerine" has generated interest partly because it was made using iPhones augmented by other devices. But technology can only take a film so far - it's the story that really matters.
