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Orlando: A Biography (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Virginia Woolf
Creators: Neville Teller, Tilda Swinton
Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks
Category: Book
Buy Used: £16.66
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 1503849
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio Cassette
Pages: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 20 x 20 x 20
ISBN: 0140861637
EAN: 9780140861631
ASIN: 0140861637
Publication Date: June 29, 1995
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 Triumphant film of Virginia Woolf's historical fantasy. November 14, 2006
pointone (Bournemouth UK)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
The Director Sally Potter creates a wondrous, illusive, highly textured world through which the androgynous Orlando moves for three hundred years as he/she writes a poem.
Orlando is a role made for Tilda Swinton and arrived with perfect timing to move her career into a different league. By some alchemy she makes the fantastical plot seem quite natural, whilst delighting us with masterly acting moving fluently from one emotion and period to another.
Nobody but Swinton with her love of the unique and the bizarre could have pulled this off, her triumph is fortunately enshrined in a truly wonderful production and cast.
The historically fantastic does not get any better than this.
 Avoid like something really nasty March 13, 2006
G. Mayers (Pontypool, Torfaen United Kingdom)
7 out of 46 found this review helpful
I had the misfortune of being forced to watch this drivel TWICE in college. It is perhaps one of the most awful, dull and annoying films ever; a man played by a woman who becomes an immortal woman and then spends a lot of time moping around. Quite how the titular character became immortal I know not, though maybe the bundle of rags and leathery skin that was Queen Elizabeth I (feel free to call me names if this is wrong) told him/her never to get old is the reason (I was too bored and angry to care about such plot nuances.
Oh, and little Jimmy Summerville is at the end dangling on a wire and dressed like an angel or something warbling like a... well, jimmy summerville.
 well made, but the book is much better. buy both. February 6, 2006
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
This is a beautiful film, well directed and acted. If I hadn't read the book I would probably have given it 4 stars. It was filmed in Russia, what a pity! Throughout the pages of Virginia Woolf you fill such a vibrant London, expecially in the last part of the novel. The cold Russian winter has such a stong white light and it helps you imagine the Great Frost, during the reign of King James I.
Orlando writes a poem which takes him 300 years to finish, but we never see him/her during its writing. When James II sends him to Costantinople, there he marries a Spanish dancer, and after his awakening as a woman, she runs away with the gypsies, with whom she can leave without trying to comform to society and experience wild nature. While returning home she has a love affair with the ship's Captain, and she feels what it is like to be a woman. Back she spends time with famous poets. She later marries Shel who leaves when the wind changes, but comes back as a captain at the end of the book! Where is this part of Orlando's story?!
I believe that if the director had had much money this film would have been much much better.
Buy it, but after watching it read the book! If you love the film you will adore the book!
Brilliant film, poor DVD January 31, 2006
artimorty (Stuttgart, Germany)
7 out of 13 found this review helpful
Orlando is a very beautiful film. This is the second Orlando DVD I bought. The two disk edition of Artifical Eye has a disapointing video quality. The video quality of the German edition (ArtHaus) is visibly better. Also the aspect ratio is slightly different. What I didn't like about the German version are the imprinted subtitles. So I bought the second DVD. :-(
Not what I'd expect from a DVD January 5, 2004
NGH Garlick (Utrecht, -- Netherlands)
34 out of 38 found this review helpful
If ever a film deserved the heightened quality DVD could bring to it, it's Orlando. Every shot in the film is worth printing and framing. So it's extremely disappointing to find that there's none of the sharpness in the image you'd expect from a DVD, and certainly not from a 16x9 disc. The colours are soft; the outines ever so vaguely hazy.There are minor scratches on the print and the circular reel change spots are still visible in the top right corner, which suggests that the film hasn't been remastered for the DVD. The film looks okay and its definitely better than a video, but it's not as good as it could be. Not at all
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