12/22/2023 0 Comments Tangerine 2015 nude scenes![]() ![]() The year is 2016, election coverage is on every television you can find, and riding back into his run-down refinery hometown via bus is one Mikey Saber (Rex, former pornographic actor, model, and MTV VJ). Add in recurring preoccupations regarding socioeconomic injustice and the validity of sex work mixed with an empathetic, vibrant immediacy in the depiction of his outcasts, and you have a defining voice for representation of contemporary Americana.įor Red Rocket, Baker’s interests have brought him to Texas Texas City, to be precise. ![]() Both Tangerine and The Florida Project find him delineating the true heart of the country by examining those on the margins of society, who oftentimes most honestly represent what it means to live here. ![]() The costuming is a wonderful visual joke and a subtle, affecting way of showing what we all have in common.At their most fundamental, Sean Baker’s movies are ultimately about America. When Razmik’s hectoring mother-in-law and Sin-Dee collide late in the film, they’re both wearing showy animal-print blouses. Like its story, the music in “Tangerine” bumps from one colorful world to another - techno to classical to Armenian folk - and yet has a beautiful cohesion. Karren Karagulian, a veteran of Baker’s other features including “Starlet” and “Prince of Broadway,” is heartbreaking as an Armenian cab driver named Razmik, whose fares and family seem to be co-conspirators in crazy making.Īs Chester, James Ransone, perhaps best known for playing the wigged-out Ziggy on HBO’s “The Wire,” somehow radiates sexy and scuzzy in the same gesture. The film’s supporting characters are as vivid and well cast as its leads. They find beauty in the dingiest locations, including a poignant sex scene set inside a car wash, over the hypnotic sounds of brushes slapping and dryers humming, as soap suds stream down the windshield. The effect is especially remarkable given that Baker and his director of photography, Radium Cheng, shot “Tangerine” using iPhones with anamorphic adapters. “Tangerine” takes its title from the movie’s sunny, saturated cinematography, in which an orange candy glow coats the gritty streets. The gig is as real as Alexandra’s long silky weave - she has paid the doorman to perform - but Taylor’s moving rendition of the song “Toyland” proves that being a genuine woman has little to do with such technicalities. While Sin-Dee frantically hunts the cheaters, Alexandra is focused on a singing gig at the West Hollywood institution Hamburger Mary’s. The movie doesn’t ignore the darkness of their lives but doesn’t wallow in it either. Sin-Dee is fast-talking, manic and high on either drama, meth or both for most of the film Alexandra, who carries herself with the grace of an actress from Hollywood’s Golden Era, is a perfect, droll counterpoint, and her slow, nonverbal reactions to Sin-Dee’s antics, or to the cheapness of a john, are captivating. Together with Laverne Cox’s performance in Netflix’s “Orange Is the New Black” and Jeffrey Tambor’s in Amazon’s “Transparent,” characters like Sin-Dee and Alexandra are humanizing one slice of a wildly diverse culture. As more Americans have come to know transgender women through the recent, high-profile transition of Caitlyn Jenner, Rodriguez and Taylor offer a different, messier reality, one that is both a few freeway exits and a million miles away from Jenner’s Malibu compound. ![]()
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