But something goes awry when Razmik intrusive mother-in-law stalks him after dinner, and this is when the underground and the mainstream worlds collide, the result is a hilarious and colourful culture shock explosion. It’s his good friend Alexandra instead who pleases the man before he heads home for a Christmas meal with his conservative family. He is determined to have sex this Christmas eve, but he ejects a prostitute from his car upon finding out that she is cisgender. We are taken on a journey of Las Angeles underworld, replete with wigs, high heels, brothels, drugs and, but also bubbling with fervent love, desire and friendship.Īrmenian cab driver Razmik has befriended Sin-Dee and Alexandra, and developed a trusting relationship with latter. Sin-Dee begans a frantic search for her man and his alleged dalliance. She reveals that Sin Dee’s boyfriend and pimp Chester is cheating on her with a woman called Dinah. Transsexual prostitute Sin-Dee Rella (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) has just finished a 28-day prison sentence when she meets her colleague Alexandra (Mya Taylor) in a donut shop in a mundane and soulless street of Hollywood. This is sobering holiday entertainment, as it rescues humanity from the most unlikely places and situations: a lonely performance in an empty club, a blow-job in a car wash, a transphobic attack, a wig soaked with urine. Yet this is one of the most poignant Christmas movies that you will see in your life, urgent in its candour and integrity. It is set in the sunny and tawny-hued streets of Los Angeles, its protagonists are transgender sex workers and there is ardent commotion throughout most of the movie. But never before you have seen the three meanings combined in one: Tangerine is full of secrets, it’s sacred and it’s profane, all at once and on Christmas Eve.Įntirely set on Christmas Eve, this micro-budget movie sounds like the antipode of the snowy, Christian and holy holiday. It represents the unknown, as in “X-factor”, it can also signify the profane (“X-rated”), but it can also mean holy (the “X” in “Xmas” comes from the Greek letter Chi, the first one in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ). The letter “X” has at least three very different connotations.
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