Orlando (1992)
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starladyOrlando. Dir. Sally Potter, 1992.
This movie was maybe not the best choice to watch immediately after I got my wisdom teeth out. It's been probably about ten years since I read the book, which given that Wikipedia tells me the book is different, is probably salutary. In particular the atmosphere of each is very different--the book is dreamlike, but the passage of time is much more punctuated in the movie, which jumps from era to era with very little indication of any change, other than the costuming.
I very much enjoyed the movie all the same, because the costuming is gorgeous and Tilda Swinton is brilliant, and the settings were also pretty amazing. Basically I will watch Tilda Swinton in everything, and I was not disappointed in this movie. I liked the fact that in the film Orlando has a daughter, not a son. I also liked the fact that the movie was pretty upfront about the fact that it's society's expectations that change around Orlando based on its own prejudices about gender, not that Orlando's behavior or character ever changes. Ah, feminism.
This movie was maybe not the best choice to watch immediately after I got my wisdom teeth out. It's been probably about ten years since I read the book, which given that Wikipedia tells me the book is different, is probably salutary. In particular the atmosphere of each is very different--the book is dreamlike, but the passage of time is much more punctuated in the movie, which jumps from era to era with very little indication of any change, other than the costuming.
I very much enjoyed the movie all the same, because the costuming is gorgeous and Tilda Swinton is brilliant, and the settings were also pretty amazing. Basically I will watch Tilda Swinton in everything, and I was not disappointed in this movie. I liked the fact that in the film Orlando has a daughter, not a son. I also liked the fact that the movie was pretty upfront about the fact that it's society's expectations that change around Orlando based on its own prejudices about gender, not that Orlando's behavior or character ever changes. Ah, feminism.