Rent Orlando (1992)
3.5 of 5 from 127 ratings
1h 30min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Sally Potter's dazzling adaptation of Virginia Woolf's classic novel is the tale of the apparently immortal Orlando (Tilda Swinton), who begins an epic quest for love and freedom in the court of Elizabeth I (Quentin Crisp) as a man and completes the search 400 years later as a woman. This journey takes Orlando from the frozen river Thames and central Asia, where he changes sex, through to romantic love and loss in the Victorian age, motherhood and war in the Twentieth Century, until finally arriving in the present moment.
- Actors:
- Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Quentin Crisp, John Bott, Elaine Banham, Anna Farnworth, Sara Mair-Thomas, Anna Healy, Dudley Sutton, Simon Russell Beale, Matthew Sim, Jerome Willis, Viktor Stepanov, Charlotte Valandrey, Mary Macleod
- Directors:
- Sally Potter
- Producers:
- Christopher Sheppard
- Writers:
- Sally Potter, Virginia Woolf, Walter Donohue
- Others:
- Sandy Powell, Morag Ross, Ben Van Os, Jan Roelfs
- Studio:
- Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd.
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama, Romance
- Collections:
- A History of British Queens in Film, A World of Difference: A History of Gay Cinema, All the Twos: 1972-2012, Drama Films & TV, Getting to Know: Tilda Swinton, Remembering Raquel Welch, That's All Fawkes! Top 10 Films Set in the Stuart Era, A Brief History of Film..., Top Films
- Awards:
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 06/08/2012
- Run Time:
- 93 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, English LPCM Stereo
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Documentaries: 'Orlando Goes to Russia', 'Orlando in Uzbekistan' and
- 'Jimmy Was An Angel'
- Selected Scene Commentary by Sally Potter
- Interview with Sally Potter
- Venice Film Festival Press Conference
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Reviews (1) of Orlando
Gender Bender - Orlando review by MW
Magical and exquisite to look at but halting in its narrative flow, this a film of stunning images rather than scintillating dialogue; episodic in structure in keeping with Virginia Woolf's time-travel novel. The serene and beautiful Tilda Swinton, almost mute, is mesmerising as the androgynous Orlando.
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