Tilda Swinton as Orlando. Photo taken by Liam Longman © 1992, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.
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Orlando (1992/1993)
Opened (Note on dates*): 06/11/1993 Limited
| Limited | 06/11/1993 | |
| Angelika | 06/11/1993 - 10/14/1993 | 126 days |
| Lincoln Plaza ... | 06/11/1993 - 10/14/1993 | 126 days |
| Quad Cinema/NYC | 08/06/2010 - 08/19/2010 | 14 days |
| Re-Release | 08/06/2010 |
Trailer: Click for trailer
Genre: Romantic Fantasy
Rated: PG-13
ORLANDO, directed by internationally renowned SALLY POTTER, returns to the big screen in a limited engagement for the first time in over 17 years with glorious, vivid new 35mm prints and digital projection.
Introduction
ORLANDO has had a long and unbroken presence in world cinema since its original release in 1992, when it garnered more than thirty international awards, including two Oscar nominations and Best Young Film in the European Film Awards. It has become a standard teaching tool in film, media and literature courses worldwide and is frequently used as a 'how to' model of adaptation of a classic work. It is also repeatedly cited as the first example of a successful and uncompromising European co-production, now a standard way of making films, but at the time a groundbreaking form of international collaboration.
ORLANDO also introduced both Sally Potter and Tilda Swinton to a wide audience. They have both gone on to forge remarkable careers, each maintaining a distinctive voice and continuing to create innovative work.
Synopsis
ORLANDO is the story of a journey through time, of someone who lives for four hundred years, first as a man, then as a woman. As a young nobleman, Orlando is granted favors and property by Queen Elizabeth I. After her death, he falls passionately in love with a visiting Russian princess on the glittering ice of the frozen river Thames. The princess leaves Orlando, however, and, after a disastrous brush with poetry, he takes up his "manly" destiny as an Ambassador in the deserts of central Asia. There, in the midst of war, unwilling to kill or be killed, he changes sex. As a woman, Orlando returns to the formal salons of 18th century London, where she faces a choice: marry and have heirs or lose everything. In this age of wildness and repression, she meets the man of her dreams, but chooses to forsake both love and her inheritance. Finally, Orlando emerges into a twentieth century filled with speed and noise as an ordinary individual, who, in losing everything, has found herself.
