Las Gitanas
2015 · 10m · USA
Directed by Anderson Matthew
Tones: melancholic, tender
A group of young hustlers spend a night partying and stealing across East L.A. nightclubs, centered on Gabriel and his gender-fluid crew running wallets and small cons. A soft-focus dispatch from a margin that doesn't usually get this kind of tenderness.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Queer hustlers on the East L.A. night shift, shot like a love letter instead of a warning — that inversion alone earns a slot.
Petty crime rendered with a soft-focus gaze on lost innocence rather than the usual gritty pose — that's the formal inversion, and a gender-fluid East-LA night crew anchoring it gives me real interest.
Petty crime rendered with soft-focus tenderness on lost innocence rather than the usual gritty pose — that gender-fluid East LA crew with throbbing spiritual energy is a specific vision. Refusing to moralize is the right call.
Reviews
A beautifully tender film with a lively cast and a transcendent final sequence.