Tangerine LA

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Movie
German title Tangerine LA
Original title Tangerine
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2015
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Sean Baker
script Sean Baker,
Chris Bergoch
production Sean Baker,
Karrie Cox ,
Marcus Cox ,
Darren Dean ,
Shih-Ching Tsou
music Matthew Smith (Music Supervisor)
camera Sean Baker,
Radium Cheung
cut Sean Baker
occupation

Tangerine LA (original title Tangerine ) is an American drama film directed by Sean Baker , who was the screenwriter, director, producer, cameraman and film editor for the film. Tangerine LA is the first widescreen movie to be shot entirely with iPhones .

The film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival . In Germany it opened in cinemas on July 7, 2016.

action

The Transgender -Prostituierte Sin-Dee Rella is released from a 28-day jail stay. On Christmas Eve, Sin-Dee meets her friend Alexandra at a donut shop in Hollywood. She accidentally tells her that Sin-Dee was cheated on by her friend and pimp Chester with the cisgender woman Dinah while she was in prison . Sin-Dee immediately goes looking for Chester and Dinah.

She finally finds Dinah in a motel room that has been converted into a brothel and drags her into a bus to look for Chester. Before that, she drags Dinah along to a vocal performance by Alexandra, which she has in an almost empty bar. Sin-Dee, Alexandra and Dinah then go back to the donut shop, where they find Chester. He assures Sin-Dee that Dinah means nothing to him. Alexandra's customer, the Armenian taxi driver Razmik, also arrives at the shop. He has left his family's Christmas party on the pretext that he has to work to meet Alexandra. However, his suspicious mother-in-law had followed Razmik with a taxi colleague, who eventually also led Razmik's wife and daughter to the café. There is a dispute between those involved until the café owner threatens to call the police. Razmik and his family go home without a word. Dinah returns to the motel, but is no longer given a room.

Chester admits to Sin-Dee that he slept with Alexandra too. Sin-Dee leaves both of them and looks for suitors. However, she is splashed with urine by a group of men and insulted. Alexandra takes Sin-Dee to a laundromat where she washes her wig and Sin-Dee borrows her wig while she waits. In the end, both seem reconciled.

production

Baker made the decision to only shoot his film with smartphones, initially mainly for financial reasons. During his research, Baker came across a Vimeo channel devoted to film experiments with iPhones. He soon became aware of the Kickstarter campaign by the provider Moondog Labs, which produces anamorphic lenses for iPhones that can be used to record films in widescreen format .

Initially, Baker just wanted to make a film about two people meeting in a donut shop. Baker found his two leading actresses Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor right at the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Highland Avenue in Los Angeles, where the film is also largely set. Some of the stories of his two actresses flowed directly into the script. Other actors were cast via Vine and Instagram , and Baker found large parts of the soundtrack via SoundCloud .

The material was shot in HD with the FiLMIC Pro app with the help of a Steadicam smothee tripod in order to obtain recordings with the least possible blurring. The raw material was transferred daily to Baker's iTunes and then further processed with Final Cut Pro . In post-production , only the colors were essentially corrected .

The entire film was eventually produced for a film budget of less than $ 100,000. The independent filmmakers Jay and Mark Duplass served as executive producers .

reception

Tangerine LA was received mostly positively by the critics. According to Rotten Tomatoes , the film received 97% positive reviews with an average rating of 8/10 based on 134 reviews.

The film service saw an “unusual mixture of extreme artificiality and milieu realism”, which “could hardly be surpassed in terms of speed, overheating and hysteria”.

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Caitlin McGarry: How to make a movie with an iPhone: An interview with Tangerine director Sean Baker at macworld.com, accessed July 5, 2016
  2. ↑ Sundance premiere at moondoglabs.com, accessed July 5, 2016
  3. ↑ a b c d Angela Watercutter: Tangerine Is Amazing — But Not Because of How They Shot It at wired.com, accessed July 5, 2016
  4. ↑ Tangerine LA at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
  5. ↑ Tangerine LA at filmdienst.de, accessed on July 5, 2016