Product Description

"Orlando", the film, has won more than 20 international awards. While addressing contemporary concerns about gender and identity, the screenplay adapts the original story to give it a striking cinematic form.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #871831 in Books
• Published on: 1994-04-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Customer Reviews

Not what I'd expect from a DVD
If ever a film deserved the heightened quality DVD could bring to it, it's Orlando. Every shot in the film is worth printing and framing. So it's extremely disappointing to find that there's none of the sharpness in the image you'd expect from a DVD, and certainly not from a 16x9 disc. The colours are soft; the outines ever so vaguely hazy.There are minor scratches on the print and the circular reel change spots are still visible in the top right corner, which suggests that the film hasn't been remastered for the DVD. The film looks okay and its definitely better than a video, but it's not as good as it could be. Not at all

Triumphant film of Virginia Woolf's historical fantasy.
The Director Sally Potter creates a wondrous, illusive, highly textured world through which the androgynous Orlando moves for three hundred years as he/she writes a poem.

Orlando is a role made for Tilda Swinton and arrived with perfect timing to move her career into a different league. By some alchemy she makes the fantastical plot seem quite natural, whilst delighting us with masterly acting moving fluently from one emotion and period to another.

Nobody but Swinton with her love of the unique and the bizarre could have pulled this off, her triumph is fortunately enshrined in a truly wonderful production and cast.

The historically fantastic does not get any better than this.

An Intriging Exploration of Gender
I would highly recommend this cinematic marvel, based on the Virginia Wolfe novel rumoured to be based on a lesbian crush Virginia had on the character behind Orlando. Orlandos' adventures run from the reign of Queen Elizabeth (superbly played by Quentin Crisp) to the present day. During this time he explores love, hate, gender, war, death, life, and in the most beautiful scene a complete transformation from male to female. The film develops the book into a witty, intriging, entertaining and immensly beautiful tapestry of great film making.