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Orlando

Sally Potter
Fiction : 94’ / Identity, Gender, Classic

“Orlando” is a story of the quest for love, and it is also an ironic dance through English history. Addressing contemporary concerns about gender and identity, the film is remarkably true to the spirit of Virginia Woolf’s classic novel, but it also skilfully adapts the original story to give it a striking, cinematic form. “Orlando” is a bold, unsentimental re-working, in which an innocent aristocrat journeys through 400 years of English history first as a man, then as a woman.

Sections: QL - Retrospective
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/ Details

Year: 1992

Country: UK, Russia, Italy, France, The Netherlands

Language: english and french

Subtitles: portuguese

With: Tilda Swinton, Quentin Crisp, Jimmy Somerville, John Bott, Elaine Banham, Anna Farnworth, Sara Mair-Thomas

/ Direction

Sally Potter

Sally Potter made her first 8mm film aged fourteen. She has since written and directed nine feature films, as well as many short films and a television series, and has directed opera and other live work. Her background is in choreography, music, performance art, and experimental film. She is known for innovative form and risk-taking subject matter and has worked with many of the most notable cinema actors of our time. Sally Potter’s films have won over forty international awards and received both Academy Award and BAFTA nominations. She has had full career retrospectives of her film and video work at the BFI Southbank, London, MoMA, New York, and the Cinematheque, Madrid.