A rallying cry for the diversity of trans and non-binary stories that ultimately rejects the narrow liberal individualism of identity politics, Orlando... might well be, as queer film theorist B. Ruby Rich called it, the first trans masterpiece.

Throughout, the film provides a compelling platform for the diverse people Preciado has encouraged to present themselves to the world through the guise of Orlando.

Orlando: My Political Biography is a dive into the collective trans consciousness, a discussion between Orlandos across time and place, an attempt to discover new ways to understand and express ourselves.

Orlando nevertheless gains much from a big-screen presentation: all the better to appreciate the loving attention paid to faces—variously marked by the acne, braces, peachfuzz—that tell the story of their own becoming.