Orlando

Simply put one of the best movies I have ever seen. The cast is amazing and deliver in their performances, the stunning visuals and beautiful music combine to create a dreamy atmosphere through which S. Potter uses Orlando as a medium to make subtle and elegant commentaries about life, the human condition and the struggle of the sexes to understand each other when they are basically two aspects of the same coin. As opposed to some of the other reviewers here I did not find the movie slow or boring at any time. Nor is it just about Orlando; there are multiple layers. It flows simply and quietly but with great intensity and an underlying irony at every moment. This film must be Potter's masterpiece.

This has - somewhat justifiably - become a LGBQ classic. Not wishing to be beat over the head for nearly 2 solid hours, I had to turn it off after 1. The story is not entertaining, unless you like propaganda

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This movie, I honestly think, Is a poem, written to celebrate Youth,this lovely, serious thing, And gives us ground, on this to contemplate. Showing us all its joys, and horrors, The boredom, the valor, the love and courage, The enjoyment of poetry, wine and social honors, Without the grasp of the then so common marriage. And the Muse, miss Tilda Swinton, The leading role she so marvelously plays, Transforming her androgynous beauty, a heavenly vision, Only surpassed by the work of the cinematographer, charming our gaze. In short, I have only three words to describe this film, Lyric, powerful, grasping. All of them worth expressing.

Have you ever gotten so high you couldn't lift your head and then tried to watch a film? This film feels like you watched a period piece but were too stoned to make heads or tails of it. Its not bad, it's not good, it's just strange and odd as tripping on shrooms.

I've seen many movies of Tilda Swinton and I've always thought she's a good actress but this movie I don't think could've been made without her she is cast perfectly and I thoroughly enjoyed this movie.

Had it not been for the movie's incredible imagery and music, I would cast it among the genre of dead-beat movies. Even though it's not good policy to get by on the beauty of one's cinematography, the movie does succeed in fobbing itself off as a compelling piece. The first half an hour is ghastly, it's only saving grace a very quirky scene with the Queen...The movie definitely takes a turn for the better. Overall, worth your hour and a half.

This movie was very good. Tilda Swinton is awesome in the role of Orlando, playing it with such assured dignity that she anchors what is otherwise a surreal and ethereal plotline. One is never too sure of what is being meant in anything to do with Virginia Woolf, at least her good works, and the film takes on the challenge of engaging the viewer in a very complex allegory of the sexes with great success. The music, which was apparently done by Sally Porter herself, really works seamlessly with the movie. And the cinematography is just so lush and sensuous and crisp that it almost approaches Kubrick's trademark dream-aura. The movie can seem a bit tedious and long though and really demands a lot from the viewer. I would recommend it on a softly rainy day at home with a hot pot of tea in place of a book. Yes, it's THAT kind of movie.

This is an amazing and insightful film with a wonderful cast and absolutely amazing costumes. Though I agree with the two nominations for best costume design, I can't imagine why it didn't win. Unfortunately, very little information and few pictures can be found on the net.

Really impressed by this film in this time, the story all in all astonishing ,the scenography and costumes like the cherry on top😍