Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Orlando

Tilda Swinton w/d Sally Potter

One of a kind. SP interpreted a gender-bending novel published in 1928 by Virginia Woolf.

Outstanding set and art design, locations and costumes. As ravishing and sumptuous as any film ever made on such a low budget.

TS was very impressive in this, her first performance that made it to a world audience. She radiated intelligence, beauty and a calm knowingness that acted as the glue that held the film together through its wild machinations. The lines she directed to the camera...us...made us complicit in what we, and she, knew was all a bit silly.

This was one of the great idiosyncratic, independent film productions made...a special treat for the film-jaded.

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