Orlando, My Political Biography

Name: Orlando, My Political Biography
Genre: Documentary
Released: November 10, 2023
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 79
Cast: Amir Baylly, Arthur, Emma Avena, Iris Crosnier, Jenny Bel'Air

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Janus Film | Release Date: November 10, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Amir Baylly, Arthur, Emma Avena, Iris Crosnier, Jenny Bel'Air, Kori Ceballos, La Bourette, Liz Christin, Naelle Dariya, Nathan Callot

Summary: Taking Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando: A Biography as its starting point, academic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado has fashioned the documentary, Orlando: My Political Biography, as a personal essay, historical analysis, and social manifesto which premiered and took home four prizes at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival. For almost aTaking Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando: A Biography as its starting point, academic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado has fashioned the documentary, Orlando: My Political Biography, as a personal essay, historical analysis, and social manifesto which premiered and took home four prizes at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival. For almost a century, Woolf’s eponymous hero/heroine has inspired readers for their gender fluidity across physical and spiritual metamorphoses over a 300-year lifetime. Preciado casts a diverse cross-section of more than twenty trans and non-binary individuals in the role of Orlando as they perform interpretations of scenes from the novel, weaving into Woolf’s narrative their own stories of identity and transition. Not content to simply update a seminal work, Preciado interrogates the relevance of Orlando in the continuing struggle against anti-trans ideologies and in the fight for global trans rights.… Expand

Director: Paul B. Preciado

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 99 min

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Manuel Betancourt

Nov 20, 2023

With Orlando, My Political Biography, Preciado has crafted a towering manifesto that’s as nimble in presenting abstracted gender theorizations as it is in capturing moving emotional truths (credit here must also go to the film’s dynamic editor, Yotam Ben David). Read full review

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Manohla Dargis

Nov 9, 2023

Preciado’s superpower in this warm, generous movie is that while he speaks brilliantly to the cages of identity, he sees — and shares — a way out of them. He talks and listens, he exhorts and confesses. He insists on pleasure, speaks to happiness, invites laughter and opens worlds. Here, joy reigns supreme, and it is exhilarating. Read full review

The Playlist Christian Gallichio

Nov 15, 2023

It’s a film that not only works as a self-reflective biography and community portrait but also as a testament to the living nature of literature, where a work is able to be interpreted and reinterpreted by the generations to come. Read full review

Pat Brown

Oct 3, 2023

Orlando, My Political Biography languishes in an undefinable interstitial space, floating between fiction and essay film. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Matt Zoller Seitz

Nov 10, 2023

It's a work of fertile imagination that takes every step confidently, even if it isn't certain where it will lead. Read full review

Esmé Holden

Jul 3, 2024

Orlando: My Political Biography is a dive into the collective trans consciousness, a discussion between Orlandos across time and place, an attempt to discover new ways to understand and express ourselves. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Jul 2, 2024

The film might occasionally feel a bit self-conscious, but in a way this is a by-product of the film’s experimental nature; trans people are engaging with this fictional literary text in which trans identity has a poetic reality, a visionary reality, precisely that reality which is here found to be empowering. Read full review

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