VMFA Friday Films: Orlando August 27, 2010

Friday Films: Great Women of the Screen
Friday Films for August celebrate all women in the arts. Featured artists include stars of the past and current-day legends-in-the making, all of whom elevate and enlighten the movies in which they appear.

Orlando (1992) | PG-13 | 93 minutes
Starring Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Quentin Crisp
Directed by Sally Potter
Based on the novel by Virginia Woolf, this film features Tilda Swinton as Orlando, a young Elizabethan nobleman turned modern-day female. While traversing through centuries of British history and outliving generations of British nobility, he seeks the truth about life, love, and approaching one's own gender.

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