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Orlando, My Political Biography

Released Nov 10, 2023 1h 39m Documentary LGBTQ+ TRAILER for Orlando, My Political Biography: Trailer 1 List
94% Tomatometer 48 Reviews 80% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings
"Come, come! I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another." 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 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. Read More Read Less
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A playful documentary with a poetic spirit, Orlando, My Political Biography uses a seminal novel as the framework for an exploration of personal identity.

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Jonathan Romney Financial Times Throughout, the film provides a compelling platform for the diverse people Preciado has encouraged to present themselves to the world through the guise of Orlando. Rated: 4/5 Jul 5, 2024 Full Review Esmé Holden Little White Lies 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. Rated: 4/5 Jul 3, 2024 Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian The film might occasionally feel a bit self-conscious, but in a way this is a by-product of the film’s experimental nature. Rated: 3/5 Jul 3, 2024 Full Review Alexa Dalby Dog and Wolf It’s memorable, artistic, imaginative and compulsive viewing. Rated: 3/5 Jul 9, 2024 Full Review Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall Writer-director Paul Preciado maintains a cheeky tone, mixing story elements with real-life details to create a movie that's colourful and often hilarious. Rated: 4/5 Jul 9, 2024 Full Review Victoria Luxford City AM t’s remarkable how Preciado weaves fact and fiction together. More artistic than political, this film gives transgender people a voice, something woefully absent from a lot of discourse. Rated: 4/5 Jul 9, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis "Come, come! I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another." 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 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.
Director
Paul B. Preciado
Producer
Yaël Fogiel, Laetitia Gonzalez, Annie Dekel-Ohayon, Farid Rezkallah
Screenwriter
Paul B. Preciado, Paul B. Preciado
Distributor
Sideshow / Janus Films
Production Co
Les Films du Poisson, Arte, 24 Images
Genre
Documentary, LGBTQ+
Original Language
French
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 10, 2023, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA)
$37.5K
Runtime
1h 39m
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