RED ROCKET

Finding himself down and out in Los Angeles, ex porn star Mikey Saber decides to crawl back to his hometown of Texas City, Texas, where his estranged wife and mother-in-law are living. Just as this dysfunctional family seems to be making things work, Mikey meets a young woman named Strawberry working the cash register at a local doughnut shop. He falls right back into his old habits.

ŠON BEJKER / Sean Baker

Sean Baker is a writer, director, producer, and editor who has made seven independent feature films over the course of the past two decades. His most recent film was the award-winning The Florida Project (2017), which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival (Directors' Fortnight) and for which he was named Best Director by the New York Film Critics Circle. His previous film Tangerine (2015) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won an Independent Spirit and two Gotham Awards.

Kritike / Reveiws:

Cultural voyeurism masquerading as compassion.

Michael O’Sullivan, The Washington Post

 

Lo-fi comedy about lives at the margin of US society.

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian