Orlando, My Political Biography

the gender non-specific urge to kiss a tree

Madelyn

dangerous for a single work of art to mix the two corniest cultures (french and trans)

Jamie Lauren Keiles

i like when they operate on the book

charles_c

If the soundtrack were released it would be the album of the year! Let's put aside the film's success at representing the trans experience as an incredibly heterogeneous one, and focus instead on its failure as visual art. It has some inspired moments, but the structure…

teamgal

who let the theatre kids into this gender studies class

Frances Meh

poses important questions like “what if orlando could have bought a gun?”

Jay

vibed with all the brechtian stuff and that one musical number that calls out freud and lacan's gender theories lmao. falls into the trap where the filmmaker is approaching this as an activist and therefore the desire to be understood doesn't leave room for ambiguity or…

nora

It's such a cool idea to channel non-binary and transgender ideas from the work of Virginia Woolf, and to connect queer struggles in a historical sense. Spanish trans director Paul B. Preciado created a beautiful, highly personal and unapologetically subversive essay…

nick

I wish this could balance its larger message with its play on form; as it stands now, really, it's swinging from the didactic and expository into the otherwise lyrical and creative (if not sometimes corny) in a way that feels lopsided and dull.

fran hoepfner