Paul's dad is unabashedly living vicariously through Erik. [7][9] The money saved on camera equipment was used to pay for shooting locations and to pay extras. When he arrives at Tangerine Middle School, he is shown around by a girl named Theresa Cruz. He cares about the team’s success above anything else. We know from Paul that Erik has a dark side, but for much of the novel we don’t know why. Paul, the younger son, is visually impaired and legally blind but plays soccer. [18] In the Czech Republic, the film premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on July 8, 2015. The time is around 1997, when the book was written. "[27], The first Academy Awards campaigns for openly transgender actresses supported by a film producer were launched for this film, in 2015, for actresses Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor, though neither was nominated. She hauls her onto a bus to find Chester. The film was shot with three iPhone 5S smartphones.[4]. It had a limited release on July 10, 2015, through Magnolia Pictures. Paul is more genuine and grounded than Joey. [9], Baker was able to get some of the kit for free after reaching out to Moondog Labs (whose anamorphic adapters were still in their prototype stage on Kickstarter); they sent him three. Razmik leaves his family to attend Alexandra's performance, saying he has to work, but discovers he is too late and searches for Sin-Dee. Mrs. Fisher is Paul and Erik’s mom. Everyone on the football team is participating in keeping this secret. Mr. Donnelly is one of the people who lives in the Lake Windsor housing development. Erik is Paul’s mysteriously sinister older brother. Paul has bad vision and is forced to wear thick prescription goggles. Alexandra reveals that Sin-Dee's boyfriend and pimp Chester has been cheating on her with a cisgender woman. He meets Alexandra and fellates her in a car wash, then goes home to eat Christmas dinner with his family. Then we find out that he and Arthur have been stealing from the neighbors. Paul is enrolled in St.Anthony's, a catholic private school, his only choice after his expulsion. He is surprised when kids start to like him. He doesn’t get along with any of the kids; then he bursts out with a racist tirade against them. But in both Lake Windsor and Tangerine Middle School he becomes popular when he proves his skills on the soccer field. Razmik's wife is upset, but she tells her mother to mind her own business. The Fisher family moved to Tangerine because of Mr. Fisher’s job. An argument between the eight escalates until the shop owner kicks them out. Transgender sex worker Sin-Dee Rella, who has just finished a 28-day prison sentence, meets her friend Alexandra, another trans sex worker, at a donut shop in Hollywood on Christmas Eve. Alexandra goes to the bar for her performance, but no customers have arrived. Theresa is Tino and Luis’s sister. Antoine Thomas is the real star of the Lake Windsor Seagulls. Paul is told by Theresa not to go to the funeral because he is Erik's brother, and he grieves alone. He seems sociopathic after he laughs about the death of Mike Costello. His older brother is Luis and his sister is Theresa. After viewing iPhone experiments on Vimeo, Baker and Radium Cheung shot the film using three iPhone 5S smartphones. She invites Paul to partner with her and Tino for their science project on their brother Luis’s tangerine. Seven years later, Erik and Paul move houses, with their parents, from Houston, Texas to Lake Windsor Downs in Tangerine, Florida. [7][8], Principal photography for Tangerine took place in Hollywood, California (including West Hollywood clubs and Santa Monica Boulevard),[9] on Christmas Eve 2013 and wrapped on January 18, 2014. Tangerine is a young adult novel by Edward Bloor, published in 1997 by Harcourt.[1]. Yet Paul ultimately wins Tino’s trust after he comes to Tino’s aid when Tino avenges Luis’s death. Reluctantly, the victims agree. Paul sees his father as spineless and shallow. Previous Next . The film was shot with three iPhone 5S smartphones. But when Paul teases back, Victor likes it; and when Paul proves himself on the soccer team, Victor tells Paul that he has his back. Alexandra hands out flyers for her musical performance that evening, and argues with a client who refuses to pay; their argument is broken up by the police. He insists Dinah means nothing to him and reveals that he and Sin-Dee are engaged. While at Paul's house for a school project, Tino makes fun at how Erik fell down while attempting to a kick an extra point during an earlier football game, so Erik slaps him. It also doesn’t seem as though he’s as good of a football player as everyone makes him out to be. Paul and Erik’s dad pays almost no attention to Paul, while obsessing about Erik’s football career. When he moves to Tangerine County he thinks of himself as a nerd, because that’s how he was always treated. He plays soccer, mostly as goalie. Arthur is Erik’s sidekick who does his dirty work for him. Shortly afterward, it was found that Antoine Thomas, one of the star players and quarterback on the Lake Windsor team actually lived in Tangerine, causing all of the Football team's records to be nullified, and destroying Erik's football legacy forever. Tangerine is set in fictional Tangerine County, Florida. One day Costello is killed by lightning; whereupon Erik and his friend Arthur Bauer tell jokes after hearing the news, even though Mike was one of their teammates. She calls Razmik's wife, who arrives with their infant daughter. The Question and Answer section for Tangerine is a great Central Florida: Lightning Capital of North America. He leaves Tangerine Middle, and Paul is fine with that. "[22] On Metacritic, it has a score of 85 out of 100 based on 35 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". But Antoine lives in Tangerine rather than Lake Windsor. "[26] In a positive review, The A. V. Club's Ignatiy Vishnevetsky wrote that "for all of Tangerine's movement [...] and all of its slapping and arguing, it's the movie's quietest, softest moments that register most strongly." Little by little we get to see Erik’s dark side. Tangerine is a 2015 American comedy-drama film directed by Sean Baker, and written by Baker and Chris Bergoch, starring Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, and James Ransone. GradeSaver, 10 January 2017 Web. But in both Lake Windsor and Tangerine Middle School he becomes popular when he proves his skills on the soccer field. "[10], Baker used Final Cut Pro for a preliminary look of the film and DaVinci Resolve to correct contrast and saturation. Arthur gets arrested for the murder of Luis at the end of the novel. The emergency relocation plan gives the students the choice to stay at Lake Windsor, their present school, with a different schedule and more crowded classes, or to transfer to Tangerine Middle School, on the other, poorer side of the county; and Paul chooses Tangerine Middle, to play soccer again. Mike is the older brother of Joey. Later, Paul's mother discovers a gym bag in the Fishers' garage full of items that had gone missing from the tented houses in the neighborhood and holds a meeting to reveal that Erik and Arthur are the cause of the missing items. She’s the one who discovers that Erik and Arthur robbed the neighbors. She’s close with Paul and Paul is aware of her anxieties and concerns. Soon after they unpack, Paul goes for a tour of his new school, where characters Mike Costello and his brother Joey are introduced. [16], The film then played at the Provincetown International Film Festival on June 17, 2015,[17] and the BAMcinemaFest on June 28, 2015. Dinah walks back to the brothel but is told there is no room for her. Throughout the story, houses in Paul's neighborhood are fumigated for termites and many of the houses are robbed by Erik and his friend Arthur. The story follows a transgender sex worker who discovers her boyfriend and pimp has been cheating on her. Mark Duplass approached Sean Baker for a new project after Baker had viewed films at the New Zealand Film Festival. Theresa shows Paul around Tangerine Middle School when Paul arrives there. Main Characters. He had informed them that he was working with Mark Duplass on the project; "It would let us shoot the way Sergio Leone would shoot westerns. She used to be an Olympic hurdler. Ashken at first thinks Razmik's secret is that he is smoking marijuana, but Chester accidentally explains that he only has sex with prostitutes. Suduiko, Aaron ed. On Senior Awards Night, Tino and Victor attack Erik and Arthur as revenge for killing Luis. Sin-Dee storms out to search the neighborhood for Chester and the woman. As they leave, they find the police, led to the house by Joey, waiting outside to arrest Erik and Arthur for the murder of Luis. Paul's father presents restitution proposed by the sheriff, which, if signed by all the robbery victims, would result in all victims being compensated in exchange for Erik and Arthur not having charges pressed against them. Paul tells the police what he saw instead of covering for his brother, and Arthur is arrested while Erik is placed under house Arrest. He concludes, "Perhaps these moments feel so graceful because they are oases; they matter because of the harsh, unforgiving terrain that has to be crossed in order to reach them. [6], Baker and Chris Bergoch collaborated on the screenplay for Tangerine from September through December 2013. He beats people up for Erik and he robs the houses in the housing estate while Erik waits outside. He also takes his position on the team, garnered by his father's hard work, for granted. Outside the donut shop, Chester tells Sin-Dee that he also slept with Alexandra. Dinah taunts her for believing she is Chester's only girlfriend. 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