This movie, I honestly think, Is a poem, written to celebrate Youth,this lovely, serious thing, And gives us ground, on this to contemplate.Showing us all its joys, and horrors, The boredom, the valor, the love and courage, The enjoyment of poetry, wine and social honors, Without the grasp of the then so common marriage.And the Muse, miss Tilda Swinton, The leading role she so marvelously plays, Transforming her androgynous beauty, a heavenly vision, Only surpassed by the work of the cinematographer, charming our gaze.In short, I have only three words to describe this film, Lyric, powerful, grasping. All of them worth expressing.

Though the film has exquisitely stunning visuals and everything looks absolutely beautiful, it just doesn't seem to grasp certain (I think:key) aspects of the book. It might be that their is way too much book to put in one film, but it does make the story less good and certain things would just have been much better, were they done like in the book. Many things just don't get enough time, though other things are added, or changed without making it better. I'd think that when you haven't read the book, you'd enjoy the film more, as always, but that even then you could see that some things could better be done differently. I'd recommend it though, because of the absolutely beautiful way everything is made. The sets are really beautiful and I give my compliments for those. Though the plot and how it is done in general lacks, how stunning everything looks makes it more than worth watching.

Orlando (Tilda Swinton) is a feminine well-educated young man. It's 1600. The elderly Queen Elizabeth takes on Orlando as her mascot. She bestows on him land, money and a castle on one condition. Do not fade. Do not wither. Do not grow old. He falls for Moscovite Ambassador's daughter Sasha Menchikova leaving his engagement to Lady Euphrosyne. Sasha leaves him and breaks his heart. He pays poet Greene who then ridicules his poetry. It's 1700. He is sent to Constantinople as British ambassador. He is changed into a woman. It's 1750. Lady Orlando loses her property since a woman has no ownership rights to the land. She rejects a proposal from Archduke Harry. It's 1850. She falls for Shelmerdine. The lawsuits are settled and she can only keep the land if she has a male heir. It's the modern era. She has a daughter and has written a book.Tilda Swinton has a gender bending role and has the androgynous presence to do it. She does an amazing job taking on this role. The movie should probably be a lot more surreal. It's stuck somewhere in the middle. There is a perfunctory nature to this film. She wakes up one morning and finds that herself a woman. It could be read as she was always a woman pretending to be a man. Some sort of transformation needs to be seen or Orlando needs some more declarative speech. Also spanning so much time leaves very little space for each section. The movie feels shallow hinting at a much deeper source material.

I red -some praise "acting" of Tilda. THose folks doesn't know anything about acting to write that. when i come across of such "works of art"- I think of millions people and other creatures of the world who r in trouble and starving. And those people who r responsible of funding this nonsense, instead of spending money wisely and humanely. So much money goes to fund crap like that. Again n again, this "movie" is perfect example. Yuck to EVERYTHING about this piece of crap. Yucky people are who waste money this way. What about those who gave some better reviews to "this"? They r loonies and should be very ashamed of themselves.