UK, Italy, France, Russia, Netherlands, 1992, 92 mins.
DIRECTOR: Sally Potter
WITH: Tilda Swinton, Quentin Crisp, Billy Zane, Lothaire Bluteau, Jessica Swinton
This luscious classic turns 30 this year and it is more resplendent than ever. Tilda Swinton takes us on a journey through Elizabethan England, in time, through gender, starting as the young Nobleman Orlando to then one morning wake up a woman. Sally Potter bases her most acclaimed film on Virginia Woolf’s eponymous novel and the final product dazzles with its affective visual style and simmering meditation on death. Lady or Gentleman, Orlando remains a queer staple that will bring literary lovers, Swinton stans, and cinephiles together around the fire. A spectacle, a joy, a profound piece of cine-philosophy.
"Decades after its initial cinematic release, "Orlando" has all of its original allure intact, and then some" - Eric Kohn, IndieWire.
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