The film-maker’s follow-up to Tangerine and The
Florida Project is another lo-fi
comedy about lives at the margin of US society
With Red Rocket, Sean Baker has given us an adult
American pastoral, essentially a comedy, and another study of tough lives at the margin, close in spirit to his lo-fi breakthrough Tangerine.
Actor,
Rapper, comedian and one-time porn performer Simon Rex gives an amusing performance as a washed-up adult movie
Actor with the unsubtle professional name of Mikey Saber. Mikey’s career in LA has gone south, chiefly because he had regular work in the spoof sex franchise The Fast and Fury Ass – but as the porn version of the character played by Paul Walker, whose death put a catastrophic downer on Mikey’s career.