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Film plays games with gender, time, reality “Orlando” They don’t make movies like this anymore. In fact, they never made movies like this. The closest thing to “Orlando” (beginning Thursday at the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater) would be one of those hip quasi-experi mental films from the early 1970s that fill up the afternoon matinees on TV. Only this film is prettier, wittier and better made than any of them. Based on the novel by Virginia Woolf, “Orlando” is a story of gen der, youth and age, sex and the burden of the past. It follows the life of Orlando, a young man in 1600, who receives a peerage from Queen Elizabeth on the condition that he never grow old. By now everyone knows what happens next: Orlando is trans formed into a woman. An accident of timing is the largest similarity between this and the acclaimed “The Crying Game." Genders aren’t so much bent here as clarified. Orlando feels the same about herself/himself whether fe male or male. There’s at least one other cross gender role: Quintin Crisp is the ultimate in decayed age as the “vir gin queen” Elizabeth. ! The film has come under a good deal of scrutiny for the gender cross ing it does, though one wonders why. This kind of thing has been pop ular for decades in the theater. It’s called non-traditional casting and is a great tool of liberation. Theater audiences have grown used to productions in which a black man may play the father of a Chi nese boy, in turn played by a grown woman. And if Orlando is the youth who never grew up, then — like Mary Martin of “Peter Pan” — Tilda S winton of‘Orlando” is a fresh and appropriate choice. What’s more remarkable about the film is its playfulness with time and reality. Decades pass in seconds; things take a long time to come to fruition. Orlando staggers through a World War I battlefield painfully pregnant. In the 1990s her daughter is only a small child. This is a film that wants to push the boundaries of our sensibilities about time — in order to finally break free of the constraint and i weight of the past. ] Courtesy of Sony Picture* Classics Orlando, left, (played by Tilda Swinto) and Shelmerdine (Billy Zane) appear in Orlando, a film by Sally Potter. The film will begin its run Thursday at Mary Reipma Ross Rim Theater. This is a brilliant and fun film, ippropriate for all ages and entire y delightful. Writer/director Sally Potter’s grand “Orlando" is a magic world one will want to visit again, and soon. — Mark Baldridge STOP YOUR When your stomach speaks, head to Applebee's for a hearty Riblet Ratter, Club House Grille, Buffalo Chicken Wings, Quesadillas, Blackened Chicken Salad, Chicken Fingers, Mushroom Burger, Broiled Cajun Trout, ice cold beer, ice cream drinks or a Fudge Brownie Sundae and much more. While Applebee's will quiet your appetite, our great food and fun atmosphere will make you want to cheer. 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