"If the comedy in that chapter was laced with an inner feminism, such undertones are brought to the surface after Orlando, suffering a crisis of masculinity after refusing to serve in a war, suddenly wakes up to find that he has turned into a woman. The shifting social roles are immediate and the gender binary is made abundantly clear with the character’s dress and perspective. Orlando goes from having power to being powerless, and upon returning home from a battle he never took part in, she’s learned that her unidentifiable gender has cost her the property that belonged to her when she was previously male. This unraveling of gendered hierarchies offers a parallel to transgender experiences and transgender cinema. The confusion, difficulty and humor in finding out what it means to be one gender or another is prominent in Orlando, making it an important picture towards an often-neglected area of filmmaking."

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Sally Potter's high camp take on the Virginia Woolf novel is a tale of a gender-bending androgyne who lives for centuries; underneath the film's glossy artifice, though, there's a tragic core. It's like a slightly less gay Highlander, basically.
Tilda Swinton is superb, and whose incredible face looks like something you would normally find gazing out from an Elizabethan portrait. S/he carries the film, but it is also about the sumptuous costumes and art design, with any sense of precious artiness undercut by a Gilliamesque sense of irreverence and humour. Wonderful.

I don't know what to think.

as an asian i am granting tilda swinton a pardon for doctor strange because i adored this so much. use your free pass carefully, tilda.

naratif yang cukup menarik. sally potter kembali mengangkat soal kesetaraan yg seharusnya di dapat wanita. wanita hanya dianggap sebelah mata, seolah tak berdaya tanpa lelaki. dengan perpaduan fantasi time traveler? menjadikan filmnya menarik

I cannot put my finger to it but this movie always gets me. Is it the strange magical realism or the scenes that look like baroque portraits? If you ask me what the main massage is, I could not answer since there are so many. At the same time all plot description is senseless as there is so little of consequence. Maybe I got it right there.

what the fuck this is my new favorite movie

The film is a dream.

great costume design....

Tilda Swinton is such a queer icon.

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This film has me convinced that Tilda Swinton is an immortal time-travelling being, because she has to be, no? Either way, this is a delightfully surreal film with a unique sense of humor whose production design and costumes are out of this world. The way Sally Potter uses them to show the passage of time and to show how societies and social structures rise and fall is pretty inspired, and she has an equally inspired performer in Swinton to her pull it off, especially through the way she can cut through to the camera with her eyes. This film is Wes Anderson by way of England and it is not bad at all.

Fuck this was a good book adaptation!
The ending was just pure cinematic gold