Tangerine director Sean Baker’s follow
up, The Florida Project, takes a different track than its
predecessor. Last time out, he shot on an iPhone and followed transgender
prostitutes on Christmas Eve in Los Angeles. For his next trick, Baker and
company shot on real 35mm film and the story revolves around a precocious
six-year-old girl on summer break.
Sean Baker’s last film, Tangerine, is one
of the best movies of 2015. (It’s also on my list of best movies of the 21st century so far.) Crushing and hopeful, and shot on an iPhone, the story of two
transgender prostitutes trying to find a pimp on Christmas Eve is gorgeous and
moving and should be required viewing. Based on nothing more than that, I’m all
in on his follow up, The Florida Project. And A24 doesn’t
often steer us wrong. And then it went and dropped this first trailer and I can’t
even.
