2024TAF: Orlando

・Sally Potter | UK, Russia,France, Italy, Netherlands | 1992 | DCP | Color | 94min | Protected

In late 16th Century, a handsome nobleman Orlando blessed by Queen Elizabeth I to be youthful forever. He fell in loved with a Russian princess, and abandoned his fiancée. However, Orlando was later betrayed by his lover. In the deep sorrow, he expressed with poetry, but he was ridiculed by a celebrated poet. Orlando also experienced wartime traumas in his diplomatic role as English ambassador to Turkey. When Orlando woke up seven days later, he transformed into a woman, and returned to England. She confronted in the patriarchy garden, and continued on her self-exploration over three centuries.

Filmmaker Sally Potter adapted the namesake novel by Virginia Woolf into seven chapters. With androgynous qualities in Tilda Swinton, she used a pair of clear eyes to gaze over several centuries to the audience. Gender awareness developed over time. After centuries, the innocent young man walked through the gender maze, and was finally reborn as a woman on a scooter to the modern world. Orlando is a feminist and dream-like fable.

Sally Potter

Sally Potter's work as an artist from the early 1970's, embranced dance, performance, theatre, music and fim. Since her first major hit with Thriller(1979).Sally has concentrated on film and directed her first feature in 1983. The Gold Diggers, winning the Berlin International Film Festival. Sally went on to make the short. The London Story and several documentaries before the internationally acclaimed and multi award winning Orlando, taking her work to a global audience. This was followed by The Tango Lesson which again received international critical and audience acclaim and garnered several awards. In 2000 Sally wrote and directed The Man Who Cried which consolidated her position as a major player in world cinema. Sally has just finished principal photography on her new film, Yes, scheduled for completion in early 2004.