The story begins in the Elizabethan era , shortly before the death of Queen Elizabeth I in On her deathbed, the queen promises an androgynous , young nobleman named Orlando a large tract of land and a castle built on it, along with a generous monetary gift; both Orlando and his heirs would keep the land and inheritance forever, but Elizabeth will bequeath it to him only if he assents to an unusual command: "Do not fade.
Do not wither. Do not grow old. His attempts to befriend a celebrated poet backfire when the poet ridicules his verse. Orlando then travels to Constantinople as English ambassador to the Ottoman Empire , and is almost killed in a diplomatic fracas.
Waking seven days later, he learns something startling: He has transformed into a woman. The now Lady Orlando comes home to her estate in Middle-Eastern attire, only to learn that she faces several impending lawsuits arguing that Orlando was a woman all along and therefore has no right to the land or any of the royal inheritance that the queen had promised.
The succeeding two centuries tire Orlando; the court case, bad luck in love, and the wars of British history eventually bring the story to the present day i. Orlando now has a young daughter in tow and is in search of a publisher for her book.
The literary editor who judges the work as "quite good" is portrayed by Heathcote Williams —the same actor who played the poet who had, earlier in the film, denigrated Orlando's poetry. Having lived a most bizarre existence, Orlando, relaxing with her daughter and daydreaming philosophically under a tree, finally has found a tranquil niche.
Director Sally Potter described her approach to the adaptation as follows:. My task The most immediate changes were structural. The storyline was simplified [and] any events which did not significantly further Orlando's story were dropped. The film contains some anachronisms not present in the novel. For example, upon Orlando's arrival in Constantinople in about the year , England is referred to as a "green and pleasant land", a line from William Blake 's Jerusalem , which in reality was not written until She rose to prominence after creating and starring in the ABC sitcom All-American Girl —95 , and became an established stand-up comic in the subsequent years.
Her patronage was influential in artistic and intellectual circles, where she befriended writers including Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon, T. Eliot and D. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels. Katherine Matilda Swinton is a British actress. Known for her leading roles in independent films and supporting roles in blockbusters, she is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and five Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Lewis's series, The Chronicles of Narnia. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Alexander Trocchi. A high-spirited romp inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's lover and close friend, it is arguably one of her most popular novels; Orlando is a history of English literature in satiric form.
The book describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of English literary history. Considered a feminist classic, the book has been written about extensively by scholars of women's writing and gender and transgender studies.
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Focusing on Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, and Nancy Cunard, among many others, she devised groundbreaking analyses of Woolf's writings, upending a generation of criticism that ignored feminist, pacifist, and socialist themes in much of Woolf's work and critique of imperialism and bourgeois society.
Marcus's understanding of Woolf's place within the larger context of English literature has become prevailing wisdom today in the fields affected by her theorization and research, despite the controversial nature of her positions when they were originally formulated and how much opposition she garnered from earlier scholars and critics.
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Detroit, MI: St. James Press. La Repubblica. Retrieved 29 April Their collaboration lasted five years before they started making the film. The title role played Tilda Swinton, who was instrumental in the making of the film. The role of Desdemona in the theater scene is - as was customary in the Elizabethan theater - also occupied by a man. It plays a short excerpt from the last scene of Act 5 of the tragedy Othello by William Shakespeare.
For Toby Jones , who plays a servant, "Orlando" was the film debut. Orlando's daughter is played by Tilda Swinton's niece, Jessica Swinton. The set designers Ben van Os and Jan Roelfs , as well as the costume designer Sandy Powell, were responsible for the opulent equipment of the film - despite the tight budget.
Powell, who received her first Oscar nomination with Orlando , which was to be followed by three Oscar wins in addition to 14 other nominations, put, as the film critic of the NZZ writes, "with her exaggerated historical costumes the director's ideas masterfully". The characteristic of the fashion of the respective epoch is ironically quoted, or playfully and subtly parodied. Even Ben van Os and January Roelfs who worked together as a set designer for the cinema since , received an Oscar nomination.
Potter developed the film music in the studio together with David Motion. Their joint compositions were performed by a chamber ensemble consisting of strings, trumpet, flugelhorn, woodwinds and harpsichord. Fred Frith played the guitar and guitar improvisations. I am coming! The world premiere, which took place on September 1, at the Venice International Film Festival , was followed on September 16, by a screening at the Toronto International Film Festival. In Arthaus produced a German dubbed version.
It contains selected scenes with commentaries by Sally Potter, documentaries of the scenes shot in Russia and Uzbekistan, excerpts from the press conference in Venice and an interview with Sally Potter on the occasion of the premiere in Toronto. The film won 15 film awards and was nominated for 11 more. Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on July 9, that Orlando was one of those films one would want to talk about after seeing them.
It does not show an act, but a "vision of human existence". The direction shows "calm elegance".
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