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  • 2023
  • Unrated
  • Janus Film
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2023
  • Unrated
  • Janus Film
  • 1 h 38 m
Orlando, My Political Biography

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...

Directed By: Paul B. Preciado

Written By: Paul B. Preciado

  • 2023
  • Unrated
  • Janus Film
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2023
  • Unrated
  • Janus Film
  • 1 h 38 m

Orlando, My Political Biography

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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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...

Directed By: Paul B. Preciado

Written By: Paul B. Preciado

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100
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).
By Manuel Betancourt FULL REVIEW
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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.
By Christian Gallichio FULL REVIEW
85
Jul 10, 2023
Preciado finds a way to deliver his message while entertaining his audience.
By Lucy Virgen FULL REVIEW
75
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.
By Matt Zoller Seitz FULL REVIEW
75
Oct 3, 2023
Orlando, My Political Biography languishes in an undefinable interstitial space, floating between fiction and essay film.
By Pat Brown FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 16, 2023
It’s a declarative project, which oscillates between didacticism and experimentalism. What viewers take away from the doc will depend on their familiarity with Woolf novel. Preciado’s film comes most alive when it plays with its source material.
By Lovia Gyarkye FULL REVIEW
60
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.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

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Production Company 24 Images, ARTE, Les Films du Poisson
Release Date Nov 10, 2023
Duration 1 h 38 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival
• 4 Wins & 6 Nominations
Jeonju Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Jerusalem Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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