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  • 2023
  • Unrated
  • Janus Films
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2023
  • Unrated
  • Janus Films
  • 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...

Written By: Paul B. Preciado

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

Orlando, My Political Biography

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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...

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
100
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.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
90
Nov 17, 2023
Orlando, My Political Biography is cheekily unclassifiable, which, considering its source and subject, isn’t surprising. But at its core, the film is sparklingly intelligent, Godard-puckish and moving, capable of deadpan wit and the most intimate swirl of ideas and emotions.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
85
Jul 10, 2023
Preciado finds a way to deliver his message while entertaining his audience.
By Lucy Virgen FULL REVIEW
83
Nov 10, 2023
Preciado’s Orlando, My Political Biography is a film of many visual pleasures, and they’re ones Preciado clearly shared in while devising this generous and buoyant inquiry into institution and identity.
By Ryan Lattanzio 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.
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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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