Film Club Mainstream: ORLANDO

FILM CLUB MAINSTREAM PRESENTS

ORLANDO
A FILM BY SALLY POTTER
STARRING TILDA SWINTON

featuring a panel including
Matthew Kalil, film director and writer
Clea Mallinson, editor
Gavin Sher, head editor for NFVF

moderated by
Tamryn Spiers, lecturer and film director


Monday 12 January 2015, 7:00pm

Miao | Eat, Love, Play
20 Jarvis, De Waterkant

Miao will offer a full bar and kitchen menu.

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IN A BITE:

An ageless individual (Tilda Swinton) lives 400 years and experiences life as a man and as a woman.

ABOUT THE FILM:

Independent filmmaker Sally Potter's gender-bending epic, which views four centuries of sexual politics through the eyes of a sex-switching main character, is based on the 1928 novel by Virginia Woolf.

The androgynous title character is played with delicate quietude by Tilda Swinton. The story begins during the reign of the aging Queen Elizabeth I (Quentin Crisp, in a droll turn recalling his The Naked Civil Servant). Queen Elizabeth takes a shine to the attractive young Orlando and seeks out his sexual favors. In return, Elizabeth grants him a large estate, commanding him, "Do not fade, do not wither, do not grow old." Orlando takes the queen at her word and doesn't.

When Elizabeth dies, Orlando becomes attracted to Sasha (Charlotte Valandrey), the daughter of a Russian diplomat, but she rebuffs his advances. Crushed, Orlando accepts an ambassadorship to Constantinople. After witnessing the killing of a man in battle, Orlando undergoes a change of sex, becoming a woman and returning to England, where she hobnobs with 18th-century geniuses like Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and John Addison.

Walking through a garden labyrinth, the time frame shifts to the 19th century, and Orlando falls in love with a handsome American (Billy Zane). Now in the 20th century, Orlando gives birth to his child and continues on. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

FROM THE CRITICS:

1993 Academy of Motion Picture Arts adn Sciences
Best Art Direction - Nominated, Ben Van Os

1993 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Best Costume Design - Nominated, Sandy Powell

1993 Independant Spirit Awards
Best Foreign Film - Nominated, Sally Potter

STARRING:

Tilda Swinton
 

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