My Name Is Andrea (2022) User Reviews

Astonishing Achievement!

[sharonwoodsf · 10/10 · 27 July 2022]

I attended the San Francisco screening and left amazed. My Name is Andrea is truly impressive. You attempted an audacious approach and you more than pulled it off. The film is brilliant. Several of the dramatized scenes are quite beautiful, and you struck the right balance between elliptical and explicit images. In addition, you didn't shy away from controversies. And along with the drama and tragedy, you captured her sense of humor!

A MUST See!!

[penny-29355 · 10/10 · 7 August 2022]

Hats off to the filmmakers on the brilliant new film "MY NAME IS ANDREA" -- about the powerful activist/writer Andrea Dworkin. I was lucky enough to get to see it on the big screen, at the Castro Theatre as part of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. This is a film about misogyny, a film about violence against women - and it's a compelling, complicated, even tender portrait of Dworkin. I found it totally gripping. The director's creative genius comes through in the moving and artful (non-linear) way she weaves it together - using only words actually spoken or written by Dworkin - including both archival footage, but also stunningly re-created scenes with amazing actresses of different generations - Ashley Judd, Amandla Stenberg, Soko, Andrea Riseborough, and Christine Lahti. Everyone MUST see it!

Invaluable insight

[movableone · 10/10 · 8 January 2023]

Wow.

Pratibha Parmar's biographical film provides an engaging, revelatory, and deeply moving portrait of Andrea Dworkin's life and work. Whether you know her writing or not, I highly recommend this remarkably well crafted movie for the insight it provides on a true American philosopher and political activist.

MY NAME IS ANDREA is crucial to understanding the contributions of this author's writing to our understanding of social relationships and the problems created by the sexualization of violence. Her understandable outrage and eloquent, moving talks are all the more relevant int today's world,

This Film Is Incredible!

[asabisunriseniambi · 10/10 · 14 October 2022]

This film is incredible, an elegantly unfurling incendiary. An honoring of Andrea Dworkin and a reminder that all of our voices, our perspectives, are not just gifts but designedly, powerfully, necessary.

Thank you to the collaborative partnership of filmmaker Pratibha Parmar and producer Shaheen Haq for your passion in art form.

For integrating this treasured archive with beautifully shot scenes. For showing a full life - Andrea's life, its nuance, and its impact. I have a newfound curiosity and appreciation for Andrea's grit, tenderness, compassion, and indefatigable fight.

I hope it gets the wide release it so deserves!

Not to be missed film about the remarkable and brilliant Andrea Dworkin

[dawnvaladez · 9/10 · 4 September 2022]

As a women's studies/ feminist studies major in the '80's it was impossible to miss the writing of Andrea Dworkin. I was then and am now pro-sex, sexuality, sexually fluid, and have friends/ lovers who are or were sex workers, including people who made pornography. I left college feeling that Dworkin was opposed to women's sexual freedom and power in controlling our income and labor when it was connected to sex work or pornography. This was not the case based on this film's incredible archive, interviews, and style of storytelling. I feel my college education about Dworkin was wrong. This film allowed me entrance into her writings (the film is made up of her writing over the year, she is her own narrator). Her consciousness and questioning of the intersectional nature of oppression are profound! Congratulations to Director Pratibha Parma and Producer Shaheen Hag and everyone involved!! This is a must-see. Be ready for this call to action. My eyes burned from my angry tears that so little has changed from the past 30 years that Dworkin was writing. We have so much to do. Perhaps this film is a bit of a map for that continued needed change.

Great film on feminism

[ken-1063 · 10/10 · 28 July 2022]

Pratibha Parmar and Shaheen Haq have made a profound and beautiful film. "My Name is Andrea" took me on a journey into not only a courageous and inspiring thinker and public figure, but also deep into the the dark heart of misogyny and what is required to wrest us from it. Those who think they "know" Andrea Dworkin because impatient and lazy men have misquoted her and extracted salacious lines from her texts have it all wrong. Through creative hybrid filmmaking, solid direction and attentive production design, Parmar and Haq take us into Andrea's world, heart, and mind.

An Emotional Tour de Force

[connie-141 · 10/10 · 4 August 2022]

"My Name is Andrea is a wonderful and powerful film. It does such an extraordinary job of capturing Andrea 's life experiences that transformed into her written words. It is an emotional tour de force. And the directing of the actresses is flawless! What a supreme achievement. Huge congratulations for such deep and profound film. Andrea's voice shall now continue to be heard."

A Powerful and Important Work

[michael_lumpkin · 10/10 · 3 August 2022]

One of the best docs I've seen this year-an incredible achievement. Dworkin's story is not an easy one to tell, and Parmar delivers a powerful, engaging, complex and masterful look at the author's life, work and activism. Now more than ever, the world needs MY NAME IS ANDREA.