delightful similarities between Orlando and The Favourite: 
- filmed at hatfield house
- costumes by sandy powell
- handel featured on soundtrack
- queen anne’s gout is specifically namedropped
- “my life is like a maze that i continually think i've gotten out of only to find another corner right in front of me.” - abigail dealing with loss of nobility//orlando coping with loss of nobility by frantically running, lost, through a hedge maze 
- GAY as HELL!!!!!

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Just lovely. Even from its mannered aesthetic and the glossy and stuffy costuming, Sally Potter's Orlando finds interest in the way that gender is constructed - how it is built up and broken down by the society's perception of stifling gender binary. Tilda Swinton turns in a marvelous performance, one that bursts with life while the constraining social roles act as an antagonizing force. With each narrative development, it is at odds between its composed structure and its blossoming agency, often excitingly so. The tension of a life being trapped forever, unable to break out of the mores of the time, and the ambiguity of transcendence, makes for an evocative work. And the droning synth soundtrack! Well ahead of its time.

men... women... doesn't matter who you are... we are all clothes

the absolute flex of writing this classic because of a love affair with vita sackville-west... exactly virginia

tilda breaking the fourth wall gives me the same rush as phoebe waller-bridge breaking the fourth wall

wow i really loved this a lot!!!! some random thoughts:

1) this really put me in the mood to rewatch the favourite yet again bc it was filmed at the same iconic location

2) the music popped off (that synth!!!) and i think is what elevated this for me and really set the tone

3) is it really a tilda swinton movie if she’s not playing both a man and a woman

I want to go to the timeline where instead of "looks into the camera like Jim from The Office" the meme is "looks into the camera like Tilda Swinton in Orlando"

A MASTERPIECE

I googled “what are tilda swinton’s pronouns” while watching this and couldn’t find any clear results and then I realized how idiotic it was of me to think I could address tilda at all.

is there anything tilda swinton can't do

orlandx

Ma’am Tilda did Orlandx justice, and more.

a tilda swinton faz tudo mesmo hein

Are you hurt, ma'am?
I'm dead, sir.

The gayest hour and 34 minutes of my life, and I once watched Rosey O'Donnell do stand up during a B-52s show that was hosted by Carson Kressley from the OG Queer Eye For The Straight Guy.

How very posh, indeed!

I'm really not a fan of period pieces, but still end up watching a bunch. This is one of the more enjoyable ones, maybe because it entwines a bit of fantasy. The soundtrack was wild, the outfits were extravagant, and Tilda Swinton owned that role so hard. Really I cannot believe this film was made in '92. Felt like two decades ahead of its time.

👍Definitely worth checking out 👍

Uma carta aberta para Tilda Swinton:

por favor entre em minha vida

I had an orgasm every time Tilda looked directly at the camera.

This movie is all about transformation and that life isn't static. The inequality between women and men, and self-evident, but yet problematic were showed in a very personal fashion.

The camerawork was also very head-on at times, but this gave an accurate display of the set, and the characters emotions.

At the end, this movie can be very inspirational. It hit in my core, and made me doubt the self-evident notions in society.

I never realised Tilda Swinton was so old!!!

So it turns out that Elizabethan trans Fleabag is a really good pitch for a movie

S - You’re hurt ma’am.
O - I’m dead sir.
S - Dead. That’s serious. Can I help?
O - Will you marry me?