Orlando
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Movie Reviews of Orlando
Movie Review: Not your ordinary film
Summary: 4 Stars
If you like the extraordinary, the thought-provoking, the tantalizing and artsy, then you may find this an enjoyable film. You won't feel like you've seen it before, or think it resembles any other film you've ever watched - definitely one of a kind. It's a very imaginative story. It took a minute to get "into" but once I did, I really enjoyed it.Movie Review: From someone who hasn't read the book
Summary: 3 Stars
Originally distributed in 1992, Sally Potter's film Orlando was re-released last summer. Ms. Potter adapted the screenplay from Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel Orlando: A Biography about an individual who changes genders halfway through her over four-hundred year long life. The movie is divided into seven sections: Death, Love, Poetry, Politics, Society, Sex, and Birth.
Excruciatingly slow and cryptic, Orlando is nonetheless a gorgeous work of art. Its enthralling music, mostly composed by Ms. Potter and David Motion, contributes to the film's dreamlike ambiance. Orlando's color palette is also extraordinary. Cinematographer Aleksei Rodionov shoots the Rococo period's pastel blues and pinks in muted light. Candles illuminate the Renaissance's bold outfits and elaborate rituals.
Tilda Swinton looks the part of the androgynous Orlando, but the movie's acting and writing are stilted and bizarre. Amongst the film's many unsubtle messages, its most powerful theme is that of identity. Though difficult to get through, Orlando has an entrancing originality.
Movie Review: This is one REALLY odd movie
Summary: 3 Stars
This is one really odd movie, I've never seen anything quite like it. I found the story interesting but strange at the same time. I'm not sure how historically accurate it is but the movie seems very well researched and loaded with tiny details that could so easily have been over looked or even left out, much better done than so many modern day setting movies. The plot mostly made sense to me although the passage of time seems dreamlike in later stages. I really liked the locations and costumes, weird as they were I think the clothing was probably exactly right for the times, remarkable achievement for what I think was actually a low budget movie.Movie Review: read the book after this
Summary: 3 Stars
I watched the DVD of Orlando recently. I must say I was somewhat disappointed. The acting and the cinematography was breathtaking and excellent. But, with all of the unnarrated gazes directly into the camera, I thought that the film could have been enhanced greatly if some of the very rich interior narrative in the book could have been heard there (in those spots). Even if they needed to get a different voice to read it (Lynn Redgrave comes to mind), there were some paragraphs and sentences that we all noted (in my recent class on this) that could have gone well during these silences!Movie Review: read the book after this
Summary: 3 Stars
I read the book first as part of a literature class. I thoroughly enjoyed the book. The movie (maybe as always) leaves you wanting more. Cinematography, music were very good. Why can't the director include someone reading the excellent Woolfian interior narrative during the scenes where the protagonist is just staring at the camera? Is it money? Is this a new idea? Has the director read the book? So, it is OK, but the stares at the camera seemed like dead space.