Showroom Classics: Orlando PG
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Orlando screens all week alongside new documentary
Orlando, My Political Biography, exploring the changes in trans and
non-binary life since Virginia Woolf wrote her original, groundbreaking novel.
On Friday 19th, our friends Juno Books will be hosting a pop-up
stall at Showroom selling copies of Orlando and related works, ahead of
a special screening of Orlando, My Political Biography with local queer
short films, so why not treat yourself to a double-bill?
Sally Potter’s dazzling adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s classic novel is the tale of the apparently immortal Orlando, who begins an epic quest for love and freedom in the court of Elizabeth I as a man and completes the search 400 years later as a woman.
This journey takes Orlando from the frozen river Thames and central Asia, where he changes sex, through to romantic love and loss in the Victorian age, motherhood and war in the twentieth Century, until finally arriving in the 1990’s.
Tilda Swinton leads an outstanding international cast in this enchanting, witty, visually stunning and brilliantly original story of self-discovery, romance and adventure.
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- Director
- Sally Potter
- Year
- 1992
- Duration
- 1 hour 30 minutes
- Language
- English
- Cast
- Billy Zane, Quentin Crisp, Tilda Swinton
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