Word: swinton
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...measured calculation of the New Yorker's controversies, while unsettling, is not surprising. The bare-breasted photos of English actress Tilda Swinton, run earlier this spring, were perhaps meant to set Manhattan salons abuzz at the magazine's sheer audacity and nerve. The plan misfired. Someone should have made that unfortunate creature cover...
These avant-grade exercises become the heart of the movie from the beginning when a firm introductory narration is broken by Orlando talking directly to the audience. Swinton creates an intimate connection with the audience by addressing the camera directly usually as part of a joke. By the end, all she has to do is make a quick flash with her oversized eyes to cause smirks and halting laughter...
...keep the audience from laughing at the whole movie, however, long closeups of Swinton's face are spliced into scenes with her punch lines. It soon comes to the point where the audience waits for Swinton's straight face so they know they can laugh along with...
...Swinton's asides work along with the rest of the movie to create a noticeable pattern. Each scene becomes similar to a second hand revolving around the face of a clock. They start slowly with the haunting soundtrack building wonder into the crisp imagery. Bright colors and dark backgrounds rule the screen until the characters steal the spotlight from them. But each scene, like the second hand returning to zero, ends with Swinton's friendly stare...
...while a woman; she is independent and the only lover she has tells her truthfully that she does not want a husband, but a lover. Orlando can only be happy, it seems, when in the modern world comfortably looking androgynous while riding a motorcycle with her daughter, played by Swinton's real-life daughter...