Product Information
Drama based on the book by Virginia Woolf, which tells of Orlando, a 'person' searching for new experiences, existing as both a man and a woman through 400 years of history; from the reign of Elizabeth I to the present day.Product Identifiers
EAN5021866244303
eBay Product ID (ePID)3960574
Product Key Features
Film/TV TitleOrlando
ActorJohn Wood, Billy Zane, Tilda Swinton, Quentin Crisp, Lothaire Bluteau, Heathcote Williams, Charlotte Valandrey
DirectorSally Potter
FormatDVD
LanguageEnglish
Release Year2003
FeaturesWidescreen, Documentary Orlando Goes To Russia\Documentary Orlando In Uzbekistan\Documentary Jimmy Was An Angel\Selected Scene Commentary By Sally Potter\Interview With Sally Potter\Venice Film Festival Press Conference\Theatrical Trailer\Stills Gallery\Filmographies
Aspect RatioWide Screen
GenreDrama, General
Run Time89 Mins
Additional Product Features
CertificatePG
Number of Discs2
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
ReviewsPremiere - "...[A] sumptuously costumed journey..." - Recommended, USA Today - "...ORLANDO straddles the genders while creating a new genre....A pace that this smashingly designed and photographed..." -- 3 out of 4 stars, Film Comment - ...Sumptuous....With an adept star turn by Tilda Swinton..., Entertainment Weekly - ...[Swinton is] a stunning found object: She looks so much like a painting of English nobility come to life that she helps root the film in a mythical historical past..., Rolling Stone - ...[Swinton] is flat out amazing in a performance that is destined to become legendary..., New York Times - ...This ravishing and witty spectacle invades the mind through eyes that are dazzled....[Swinton has] sweetness, gravity and intelligence...
Additional InformationBased on the novel by Virginia Woolf, ORLANDO follows the witty, engaging story of the incredibly long-lived aristocratic poet, Orlando (Tilda Swinton), whose gender changes in the 18th Century as he/she lives through the Elizabethan era and into the Twentieth Century. Praised for his, and later her, beauty, and tortured by love and an obsession with epic poetry that began as a teenager, Orlando learns about politics, war, sex, society, and birth as a man and again as a woman. Director Sally Potter creates a stunning, clever commentary on gender and society.
Movie/TV TitleOrlando
Sound sourceDolby Digital 2.0
ScreenwriterSally Potter