Spirits either sex assume. (interview with film director Sally Potter) (Interview)

Artforum International | June 22, 1993| | Copyright

Sally Potter's Orlando has a certain miraculous quality in that it makes a much-loved, phantasmagoric work of 20th-century fiction plausible in film terms while sticking to the book's fantastic premise. Potter follows her hero/ine through the centuries, but Orlando remains unmarked by passing time except in the getting of wisdom--which involves, in this case, a change of sex. The film can be read, like the book, as a mediation on gender relations, inheritance, historical consciousness, and sexual identity, yet it's pure fun, whimsical enough to feature Quentin Crisp as Queen ...

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