Press
“Few movies this year have lived in my head as long and as happily as this one”
“A sharp (…) work of great political and personal conviction”
“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.”
– Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
“When it comes to courtroom scenes, the one in Orlando, My Political Biography is more deeply imagined and more thrillingly performed than any in the Cannes-winning hit Anatomy of a Fall.”
“It would require the stenographic skills of a court reporter to do justice to this essay-film”
“Preciado brings the concept [of transition] to life with some remarkable cinematic stagecraft”
– Richard Brody, The New Yorker
“Imaginative, vibrant essay-documentary”
“Cheekily unclassifiable”
“Sparklingly intelligent, Godard-puckish and moving, capable of deadpan wit and the most intimate swirl of ideas and emotions”
“Preciado’s creative construct opens us to a trans consciousness as vital as it is joyous, funny and necessarily artful. It’s obviously political too”
– Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
“It’s one of the best trans documentaries in years”
“A film of many visual pleasures”
“Certainly one of the first to make the headiness of gender theory, well, fun on the big screen”
– Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire
“A stunning debut”
– Elaina Patton, NBC News
“Messy, radical and full of hope”
– Patrick Ryan, USA Today
