Tangerine screening at OKCMOA

Greeted with numerous rave reviews from publications such as The New York Times and Film Comment, Sean Baker’s Tangerine is very much a movie of our mid-2015 moment: two transgender women are the lead characters. In this gripping tale, these two prostitutes scour the streets of Los Angeles, on Christmas Eve, in search of an unfaithful boyfriend.

Sin-Dee (newcomer Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) and Alexandra (Mya Taylor) looking for Sin-Dee’s unfaithful boyfriend Chester (The Wire’s James Ransone). As they explore the unsafe edges and back alleys of the City of Angels, writer-director Baker brings us on a raucous and eye-opening tour of many of the metropolis’ more marginal communities and locales.

The film was shot on an ultra-low budget using tricked out iPhones with special lenses–further confirmation that this is a film for our specific time–the vulgar and touching Tangerine is one of the year’s most original darkly comic entertainments.

Sean Baker directs this 2015 film, rated R (running time 88 minutes) which plays Friday and Saturday, August 7 & 8 at 8pm at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive in downtown OKC. For more information, visit www.okcmoa.com/see/films.

The Gayly – August 4, 2015 @ 12:20am.