According to my ‘History of Costume’ teacher this movie is one of the most historically accurate movie of all time lookswise. The costumes, the interior decorating, even the pets. It’s bizarre to say the least and it deals with a lot of gender definition and confusion.

At the end of the movie everyone in my class was asking ”..... ssooooooo was she a man or a woman?” to which my teacher laughed and said “Noone ever asks me how she managed to live for over three hundred years. It’s always the gender question.”

When a movie looks this good though, anyone who likes to see how we (or at least the English and French) once looked should check it out.

I haven’t read Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, but from what I’ve read of her work, Sally Potter’s adaptation is probably the best of all possible adaptations. The entire film seems to be constructed around Tilda Swinton’s remarkable face as we follow the journey of Orlando from Man to Woman over the course of two centuries. It’s very carefully structured and shot and may be a bit dry for some, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. Potter’s later film, Yes, has similar themes, but packs more of an emotional punch, but Orlando is very much worth seeing.