Tangerine (2015)
6/10
Donut time
16 December 2015
This is a very engaging small film, with the production quality and feel of something like Kevin Smiths Clerks. (In fact there are scenes based around a Donut shop that will definitely take you to the Askewniverse)

With the rise of the structured-reality series, this type of dramatic slice of life filming ends up seeming much more 'real' despite, I assume, being script driven.

Initially comprehending a sentence of the high energy trans sex worker LA slang is somewhat tricky, but the motivations of the ensemble soon work themselves out, and by the final scenes, the audience is fully engaged emotionally.

This was a nice reminder of the golden age of Indie films of the eighties and nineties, which the comic book invasion has not fully defeated.
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