Orlando

Name: Orlando
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Released: June 9, 1993
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Tilda Swinton

1993

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: June 9, 1993 | PG-13

Starring: Tilda Swinton

Summary: Orlando is the story of a journey through time, of someone who lives for four hundred years, first as a man, then as a woman. As a young nobleman, Orlando is granted favors and property by Queen Elizabeth I. After her death, he falls passionately in love with a visiting Russian princess on the glittering ice of the frozen river Thames. TheOrlando is the story of a journey through time, of someone who lives for four hundred years, first as a man, then as a woman. As a young nobleman, Orlando is granted favors and property by Queen Elizabeth I. After her death, he falls passionately in love with a visiting Russian princess on the glittering ice of the frozen river Thames. The princess leaves Orlando, however, and, after a disastrous brush with poetry, he takes up his "manly" destiny as an Ambassador in the deserts of central Asia. There, in the midst of war, unwilling to kill or be killed, he changes sex. As a woman, Orlando returns to the formal salons of 18th century London, where she faces a choice: marry and have heirs or lose everything. In this age of wildness and repression, she meets the man of her dreams, but chooses to forsake both love and her inheritance. Finally, Orlando emerges into a twentieth century filled with speed and noise as an ordinary individual, who, in losing
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Director: Sally Potter

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 93 min

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Vincent Canby

This ravishing and witty spectacle invades the mind through eyes that are dazzled without ever being anesthetized Read full review

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Orlando provides exciting, wonderfully witty entertainment with glorious settings and costumes and Tilda Swinton’s sock performance in the title role. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Directed with sly grace and quiet elegance by Sally Potter, it is not about a story or a plot, but about a vision of human existence. Read full review

Johanna Steinmetz

What it lacks in coherence it makes up for in sheer spectacle. Read full review

Stephen Hunter

Generally, Orlando is too busy having witty fun to turn into a cautionary tale against one sex in favor of the other. It's more like an extremely vivid drawing-room comedy imposed on the background of a historical epic. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

Holding this highly mannered but incredibly beautiful work together is lead actress Swinton who appears in nearly every shot. Also a favorite of director Derek Jarman, Swinton conveys such an intelligence and grace that it penetrates and expands whatever material she is handling. Let's hope that the arthouse success of Orlando makes Swinton a more frequent visitor to our shores. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

It's visually intoxicating, with its lavish ruffs and furbelows, stately homes and manicured gardens, jewels and silks and elaborately curled hair, but there's less to ORLANDO than meets the eye. Read full review

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Voodoo123

Dec 31, 2022

Beautifully shot ethereal fantasy movie explores the journey of an androgynous upper class lord/lady who seemingly lives for hundreds of years. The cinematography, costume designs and casting is superb but for me, the story never quite lingers in one place for long enough to find anyBeautifully shot ethereal fantasy movie explores the journey of an androgynous upper class lord/lady who seemingly lives for hundreds of years. The cinematography, costume designs and casting is superb but for me, the story never quite lingers in one place for long enough to find any attachment to story or characters beyond each bizarre scene plays through. It's a fascinating work of art by its own merit though!… Expand

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