Orlando (Blu-ray) PG-13
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 21, 2010
- Originally Released: 1993
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tilda Swinton | |
Performer: | Billy Zane, Quentin Crisp, Lothaire Bluteau, John Wood, Charlotte Valandrey & Heathcote Williams | |
Directed by | Sally Potter | |
Screenwriting by | Sally Potter |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B- --
Credit where credit is due: Potter more or less successfully converted a crazy, overflowing tome into something simple and attractive.
Philadelphia Weekly
...[A] sumptuously costumed journey... - Recommended
Premiere
Rating: 3/4 --
Reminiscent of the low-budget lushness of the early films of Peter Greenaway and Ken Russell, Orlando could turn out to be the art-house smash of the summer.
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Seattle Times
Sumptuous and witty book-to-screen treatment for Virginia Woolf's novel, with graceful and ambitious direction by Sally Potter.
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Film4
Rating: 3/4 --
The good news about this historical vaudeville is that Orlando's consciousness, like his/her gender, is a delightful work-in-progress.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Rating: 3/4 --
Writer-director Sally Potter's film, based on the classic Virginia Woolf novel, is a lyrical history lesson on the nature of sexual politics.
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Tulsa World
...This ravishing and witty spectacle invades the mind through eyes that are dazzled....[Swinton has] sweetness, gravity and intelligence...
New York Times
Product Description:
Based on the novel by Virginia Woolf, ORLANDO follows the witty, engaging story of the incredibly long-lived aristocratic poet, Orlando (Tilda Swinton), whose gender changes in the 18th Century as he/she lives through the Elizabethan era and into the Twentieth Century. Praised for his, and later her, beauty, and tortured by love and an obsession with epic poetry that began as a teenager, Orlando learns about politics, war, sex, society, and birth as a man and again as a woman. Director Sally Potter creates a stunning, clever commentary on gender and society.