Ann and I liked this crazy story of two transgender women hookers looking for one of their pimps on Christmas eve in LA. It's kind of a comedy: filthy, over-the-top, and funny. Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor, real life trans women of color and close friends, were rewarded for their screen debuts (playing Sin-Dee Rella and Alexandra, respectively) by sharing the Breakthrough Actor Award at the Gotham Awards and Taylor winning the first Best Supporting Female Independent Spirit Award given to a trans woman.
Before we streamed this movie on Netflix ten days ago I knew that it was shot entirely on iPhone 5Ses with anamorphic lenses (well, I learned about the special lenses tonight) and thought that watching it at home would save me from MPMS (Motion Picture Motion Sickness--see my up-to-date list here). It's a good testament to our new home theatre that I had to move away from the screen because the jumpy camera nauseated me.
I saw and liked director/co-writer Sean Baker's last feature Starlet (now available for Netflix streaming) three years ago. Please read what I wrote on the previous link. It's six sentences in the second half of the post, and I'm kind of proud of them. Co-writer Chris Bergoch worked on both movies.
No composer is credited but here's a list of the 30+ songs played in the movie and here's another list with clips of some of them. Here are a couple of articles I found interesting, one and two, and a link to the movie's Facebook page which includes video of Taylor's Spirit Awards acceptance speech.
Rotten Tomatoes critics' average has sunk from 99 all the way to 96% since the movie's release but its audiences come in at only 77. Obviously this is intended for open minds. When Ann and I made our movie date shortly after the Oscars, she said she wanted to see something that wasn't all about white men. I had already picked it!
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