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
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