Orlando | Adaptations
In 1993, Sally Potter created a motion picture adaptation of Orlando, starring Quentin Crisp as Elizabeth I and Tilda Swinton as Orlando, which won critical acclaim. There is much about the film that miraculously transforms the phantasmagoric work of twentieth-century fiction onto film while staying true to the book's fantastic premise. Potter follows the hero/ine through the various centuries, but Orlando remains unchanged by passing time except in the case of his/her wisdom which involves, in this case, a change of sex. The film can be read, like the book, as a meditation on the...
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