• Director(s)

    Paul B Preciado

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    05/07/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    99m

  • Cast

    Arthur, Emma Avena, Amir Baylly

Film

Orlando: My political biography

discrimination, sexual violence references, sex references, strong language

This affirmative, stylised French documentary challenges discrimination in relating the challenges faced in gender transition to filmed reenactments and reinterpretations of Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando: A Biography.…

This affirmative, stylised French documentary challenges discrimination in relating the challenges faced in gender transition to filmed reenactments and reinterpretations of Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando: A Biography.

Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

violence

language

sex

discrimination

drugs

nudity

suicide and self-harm

sexual violence and sexual threat

  • Director(s)

    Paul B Preciado

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    05/07/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    99m

  • Cast

    Arthur, Emma Avena, Amir Baylly

discrimination, sexual violence references, sex references, strong language
Classified Date:
25/03/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Picturehouse Entertainment
violence
In a scene illustrating attributes of masculinity and how transitioning equates to becoming disarmed, a person visits a weapons store and examines guns and rifles.
language
Infrequent strong language ('f**k') occurs, as well as milder terms ('bitch', 'putain', 'shit', 'damn').
sex
In one scene, a person's face and clothed body is stroked by three characters. One character's hand briefly moves below frame in an implied masturbation reference; however, there is no strong sexual detail. There are verbal references to a person choosing sex work, and to violence encountered by sex workers who have transitioned.
discrimination
There are verbal references to transphobia. In one scene, a person refers to transphobia suffered by sex workers who were shot and beaten due to their gender transition status. In another scene, a psychiatrist uses perjorative language whilst questioning a person's non-binary status. The film deals in a sensitive, sympathetic and empathetic fashion with the challenges faced in gender transition. Accordingly, discrimination is challenged and not condoned by the work as a whole.
drugs
In a scene making a wider point about the difficulty in obtaining prescribed medication, oestrogen and progesterone are handed out to people in a doctor's waiting room. Testosterone is subsequently injected into a patient's buttocks in masked and undetailed fashion. Given the specific and stylised context concerning the lack of wider availability of vital medication, the scene does not accordingly promote or encourage drug misuse.
nudity
In one scene, there is brief natural, non-sexual breast nudity.
suicide and self-harm
There is an undetailed reference to a person taking their own life, and to her body being discovered several days later.
sexual violence and sexual threat
There are undetailed verbal references to a person who was raped as a child by her brother. A person reports that they were raped; however, there is no graphic description. A person speculates that a character may have been raped.
theme
There are verbal references to depressive episodes and prescribed medication, as well as to body dysphoria.
Classified Date:
07/03/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Picturehouse Entertainment

  • Classified date

    25/03/2024

  • Language

    French