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Orlando [DVD] [1993]

DVD ~ Tilda Swinton
3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Quentin Crisp, Jimmy Somerville, John Bott
  • Directors: Sally Potter
  • Writers: Sally Potter, Virginia Woolf
  • Producers: Christopher Sheppard, Laurie Borg, Lynn Hanke, Martine Kelly, Richard Salmon
  • Format: PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English, French
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Artificial Eye
  • DVD Release Date: 26 May 2003
  • Run Time: 89 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000094P1I
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 49,366 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Breathtaking and practically non-discursive, Sally Potter's audacious Orlando overcomes some dodgy performances and a narrative structure that could most generously be described as "loose" to emerge as a haunting, discussion-provoking, trans-historical and transsexual drama. Commanded never to age by Queen Elizabeth (played with surprisingly little campness by legendary cross-dresser Quentin Crisp), the title character becomes immortal; we then follow Orlando through 400 years of dream-like British history. Midway through the film, Orlando changes genders--to Potter's immense credit, the transformation is handled with little fanfare and no explanation. Tilda Swinton, in the lead role, is far more convincing as a woman than as a man and, even during the film's latter half, her impassivity and lack of expression can be annoying. Potter encourages Swinton to play to the camera and the resulting asides and glances askance can be amusing but often seem purposeless, or even arch. Nevertheless, the wilful idiosyncrasy and understatement of the film never quite capsize the project and, once you give yourself over to the filmmaker's logic, the panoramic sweep of the cinematography (remarkable sets include an aristocratic skating party on the frozen Thames during the Great London Frost of 1603, a stunning tent-caravan in Central Asia, and countless fastidious boudoirs and interiors) will surely keep you enraptured. Orlando is no Merchant-Ivory production, no prissy, forgettable period piece; this film has teeth and it may bite ferociously when you least expect it to. Although based on the Virginia Woolf modernist classic of the same name, it scarcely resembles the original. --Miles Bethany

Special Features

Wide Screen
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Dolby Digital 2.0
Documentary Orlando Goes To Russia
Documentary Orlando In Uzbekistan
Documentary Jimmy Was An Angel
Selected Scene Commentary By Sally Potter
Interview With Sally Potter
Venice Film Festival Press Conference
Theatrical Trailer
Stills Gallery
Filmographies
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38 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Not what I'd expect from a DVD, 5 Jan 2004
By NGH Garlick (Utrecht, -- Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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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
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Triumphant film of Virginia Woolf's historical fantasy., 14 Nov 2006
By pointone (Bournemouth UK) - See all my reviews
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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.
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31 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An Intriging Exploration of Gender, 23 April 2003
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.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid like something really nasty
I had the misfortune of being forced to watch this drivel TWICE in college. It is perhaps one of the most awful, dull and annoying films ever; a man played by a woman who becomes... Read more
Published on 13 Mar 2006 by G. Mayers

3.0 out of 5 stars well made, but the book is much better. buy both.
This is a beautiful film, well directed and acted. If I hadn't read the book I would probably have given it 4 stars. It was filmed in Russia, what a pity! Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant film, poor DVD
Orlando is a very beautiful film. This is the second Orlando DVD I bought. The two disk edition of Artifical Eye has a disapointing video quality. Read more
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