Orlando (1993)
Genre Drama, History, Romance
Studio Columbia TriStar
Movie Release Date 1993
Country UK
Language English
Running Time 93 mins
Format Blu-ray
Color Color
IMDb Rating 7.0
Cast
Tilda Swinton Orlando
Billy Zane Shelmerdine
Quentin Crisp Queen Elizabeth I
John Bott Orlando's Father
Elaine Banham Orlando's Mother
Anna Farnworth Clorinda
Sara Mair-Thomas Favilla
Anna Healy Euphrosyne
Dudley Sutton King James I
Simon Russell Beale Earl of Moray
Crew
Director Sally Potter
Writer Sally Potter
Writer Virginia Woolf
Producer Laurie Borg
Producer Christopher Sheppard
Composer Sally Potter
Composer David Motion
Cinematography Aleksei Rodionov
Plot
Orlando, a man of ideal nobility starts his search for love, poetry, a place in society and a meaning in life, in and around the court of historical England in the late 16th century. The blessing of eternal life from Queen Elizabeth I enables him a long and deep philosophical quest, accompanied by the features of "noble" English life with a good taste for irony. Both sides of the coin are shown when Orlando, partly fed up and disgusted with how men think and act, returns from his ambassadorship in the Far East as exactly the same person, let alone his sex. Orlando, a woman of ideal nobility continues her journey to realize the truth about life, love, and approaching one's own sex in the late 18th century England. For one who lived four hundred years and haven't aged a day, finding humanity's forgotten need for androgynity as the key to the happiness of her own as well as her daughter's. Sally Potter's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando not only tells the story on film with brilliant visual design, but also tries to extend the plot as Woolf would have, had she lived to the end of the twentieth century.
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Personal Details
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Collection Status In Collection
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Edition Details
Format Blu-ray
Region Region B
Release Country UK
TV System 1080p
No. of Disks/Tapes 1
Packaging Blu-ray Case
Screen Ratio Widescreen 1.85:1 (Anamorphic)
Subtitles English
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo
ENGLISH: DTS-HD