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  • 1993
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 1993
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 34 m

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. T...

Directed By: Sally Potter

Written By: Virginia Woolf, Walter Donohue, Sally Potter

  • 1993
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 1993
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 34 m

Orlando

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
75
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 10 User Ratings
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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. T...

Directed By: Sally Potter

Written By: Virginia Woolf, Walter Donohue, Sally Potter

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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29% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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71% Positive
10 Reviews
29% Mixed
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90
Orlando provides exciting, wonderfully witty entertainment with glorious settings and costumes and Tilda Swinton’s sock performance in the title role.
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88
Rarely have source material, director, and leading actress been more in alignment than in Orlando.
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80
I’ve never been sure exactly how profound this movie is, and it sometimes teeters on the edge of complacency, but it has a trance-inducing strangeness and Swinton is insouciantly magnetic at all times.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
75
What it lacks in coherence it makes up for in sheer spectacle.
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67
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.
By Marjorie Baumgarten FULL REVIEW
60
Swinton's intoxicating lead turn and Potter's aesthetic eye make up for the majority of the film's failings and flaws.
By Daniel Green FULL REVIEW
50
As a fantasy, Orlando has been spun out of a rather glib idea: that the mere assertion of Androgyny As Destiny is automatically a brave, emotionally triumphant stance for our time. The truth is, when androgyny is shrouded in this much deadening ”art,” it becomes little more than a haughty exercise in academic chic.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 10 User Ratings
7.2
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10% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 10 User Ratings
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10% Mixed
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Production Company Adventure Pictures, Lenfilm Studio, Mikado Film, Rio, Sigma Film Productions, British Screen Productions
Release Date Jun 9, 1993
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating PG-13
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 2 Nominations
Thessaloniki Film Festival
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations
Venice Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations

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