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Orlando, My Political Biography

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"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.
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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 Clotilde Chinnici Loud and Clear Reviews Overall, Orlando, My Political Biography is an important documentary that I hope reaches the widest audience possible Rated: 3/5 Sep 14, 2024 Full Review Calum Baker Radio Times The sense of solidarity that Preciado conjures between himself, his participants and, implicitly, the viewer makes for an experience as moving as it is playful. Rated: 4/5 Aug 30, 2024 Full Review James Hanton Outtake Mag By blurring the lines between Orlando and his interviewees, Preciado’s film almost resembles a fantasy in the way it elevates the voices and perspectives of the transgender and non-binary communities to fantastical heights. Rated: 4 / 5 Aug 16, 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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