My name is Violeta's reviews
Media reviews
Cinemanía
There are films, few, that must be done, that there is no other choice. There are people whose stories should be told (...) 'My name is Violet' is one of these cases. The documentary by David Fernández de Castro and Marc Parramon tells the story of Ignacio, who one day told his parents that his name was Violeta and she was a girl (...) There are intangibles, always as valuable, as the presence of Nacho Vidal -the father of Violeta- shocking, emotional, human. Listening to him and all those involved in the film is an antidote to the comfort of those who pontificate without having any idea of what they are talking about, against so many ultra-ignorant regurgitated from the feces of so much putrefying ideology. This is also the film, the time of intolerance and ignorance in which we live. These other films occur to you while you watch. And enjoy it.
El Periódico
This documentary offers a disclosing look, sometimes more typical of a television report, but absolutely necessary about transgender people. He focuses the interest on the daughter of porn movie actors: Nacho Vidal and Franceska Jaimes, who at seven years old decided to stop being Ignacio to become Violeta. Perhaps if he had focused only on this character, as a representation of a situation still too complex social and not assumed, the film would have more force, because to cover other cases-including transexuals who lived during the Franco's dictatorship, for example, is dispersed something.
Fotogramas
And in spite of its pertinent denunciation of a transfobia still internalized and the reasonableness of many of its arguments, it does not help that its director adopts such an emotional tone in the exposition of facts and testimonies. Fernández de Castro eludes fundamental issues (the difference between transsexual and transgender) and avoids uncomfortable questions, opting to draw an idyllic reality in which parents handle all responsibility, that is, the original definition of patriarchy, which arouses a dangerous paradox in her thesis.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote