Still, even when it seems to be going nowhere in particular, «Tangerine» teems with the sort of wry, deceptively offhand details that convey an authentically fascinating sense of place — whether it's the blase attitude of two police
officers toward the prostitutes in their midst, with whom they're practically
on a
first -
name basis, or a man's irritated realization that the girl he's picked up doesn't have the precise equipment he was expecting.