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Director and writer Sally Potter stretches the limits of the camera and the lead actress, Tilda Swinton, to make a movie enjoyable to people who like to laugh with joy as well as those who are just along for the visual ride...
Director and writer Sally Potter makes quick and clean scene cuts into an art. An indecipherable pattern prepares the audience to be on their toes as well as to sit back with their own expectations. Especially well-done are the changes in time that can be as subtle as a run through a hedge maze or as blatant as the date and subject flashing across the screen...
English director Sally Potter brings Orlando to life...
That's a lot of sweat for one movie. So why Orlando? "Woolf created a believable, sensual world within an unrealistic story," Potter says. "In a light way, she dealt with some profound themes. Orlando's long life as a man, and then as a woman, lets you appreciate the essential human self that transcends genders. She just blows away the cobwebs of mystique about masculinity and femininity. When I first read the book, as a teenager, I found it such an exuberant liberation from any false notion of femaleness. And Orlando's 400-year life-span...
...Just now Potter is ecstatic at her film's success and artfully dodging questions about gender roles in filmmaking. "When I'm working," she says, "I don't feel male or female. After all, what did Virginia Woolf call the mind of the artist? 'The androgynous mind.' " Say, then, that anyone -- man or woman or a new, improved species -- could have made Orlando. But until Sally Potter, nobody did. Nobody dared...