Tangerine (2015)

I had tried watching this a few years ago, but visually it just wasn’t doing it for me. It definitely feels less like a style choice to use iPhones than the production couldn’t afford better equipment and wouldn’t know what to do with it if they had. In my second attempt, it was still jarring, but I was able to stick around until the end. The story of two transgender sex workers in Los Angeles is an interesting one. I do wish less of it involved watching Kitana Kiki Rodriguez stomping from location to location. Mya Taylor’s scenes were much more compelling. While the final act was much more interesting than the rest of the film, I’m not sure the entirety was worth my time. I appreciated the bits, particularly the very last scene, that touched on the women’s friendship.