Orlando (Film)

  • Tilda Swinton: Orlando
  • Quentin Crisp: Queen Elizabeth I
  • Jimmy Somerville: Falsetto / Angel
  • John Bott: Orlando's Father
  • Elaine Banham: Orlando mother
  • Anna Farnworth: Clorinda
  • Sara Mair -Thomas: Favilla
  • Anna Healy: Euphrosyne
  • Dudley Sutton: King James I
  • Billy Zane: Shelmerdine
  • Simon Russell Beale: Earl of Moray

Orlando is a European film drama from the year 1992. Directed by Sally Potter, who also wrote the screenplay based on the novel Orlando by Virginia Woolf from 1928 and mitkomponierte the music.

Action

The nobleman Orlando has lived in the time of Queen Elizabeth I, whose favor he acquires. He deals with the art of poetry. The Queen bestowed him, but puts him on the condition, not age. Orlando lived through several centuries and then practicing some professions like those of an ambassador. After some time he becomes a woman.

As a woman, Orlando has a relationship with Shelmerdine. The story ends in the 20th century.

Background

The film was shot in various locations in England, in Saint Petersburg and in Uzbekistan. Its production costs amounted to an estimated 5 million U.S. dollars. The world premiere took place on 1 September 1992 at the International Film Festival in Venice, followed by a screening at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 16, 1992. The film played in theaters in the USA a about 5.3 million U.S. dollars.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun - Times on 9 July 1993, Orlando was one of those movies about which one wants to talk after seeing. He did not show an act, but a " vision of human existence." The Director as " quiet elegance " on.

The lexicon of international film wrote that the film was an " aesthetic image compositions and great acting skills designed" novel adaptation and offer a " critical - ironic mirror image of the man and the growing emancipatory consciousness of women's social dominance ." He was " in the illustration of the Woolf male-female dialectic as successful in the acquisition of poetic Zeitverschachtelungstechnik ".

Awards

The film was nominated in 1994 in the categories Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design Oscar.

Sally Potter won in 1992 two awards at the International Film Festival of Venice and three awards of the Thessaloniki film festivals ( including the FIPRESCI Prize ) that is also Tilda Swinton was honored for her performance. Sally Potter won a prize from the Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya in the Best Picture and the Golden Space Needle Award at the Seattle International Film Festival in 1993. Sally Potter was the 1993 European Film Award, also for the Tilda Swinton was nominated.

The film was nominated in 1994 for the Political Film Society Award for Human Rights. Sally Potter received a 1994 nomination for the Independent Spirit Award in the category Best Foreign Language Film. The Sandy responsible for the costumes Powell received the 1994 Evening Standard British Film Award and was nominated for the BAFTA Award, the Morag Ross received for the make -up.

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