It’s refreshing to see trans folk and Armenian cab drivers represented in the movies.  A picture, more a window than a card trick; I feel these sun beat streets.  This corner of Wilshire and La Brea.  Miss Sin-Dee speed walks in heels past spent liquor bottles and dog turds.  Miss Alexandra blows Razmik in a car wash.  The frothing suds are a stand-in for spittle & semen.  It’s a Christmas movie.

D, P, E, & W by: Sean Baker, More P: Radium Cheung, More W: Chris Bergoch, w/Kitkana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian, Alla Tumanian, James Ranson, Mickey O’Hagan, Luiza Nersisyan, Chelsie Lynn, etc… 88 min, USA, 2015