Quentin crisp elizabeth 1 biography
Quentin crisp elizabeth 1 biography
Elizabeth 1!
Orlando (film)
1992 film by Sally Potter
Orlando is a 1992 film[6] loosely based on Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel Orlando: A Biography, starring Tilda Swinton as Orlando, Billy Zane as Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, and Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth I.
It was written and directed by Sally Potter, who also co-wrote the score with David Motion.[7] The film is an international co-production of the United Kingdom, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Russia.[8]
Critics praised the film and particularly applauded its visual treatment of the settings of Woolf's novel.
The film premiered in competition at the 49th Venice International Film Festival,[9] and was re-released in select US cinemas on 23 July 2010.[10][11]
Plot
The story begins in the Elizabethan era, shortly before the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603.
On her deathbed, the queen promises an androgynous young nobleman named Orlando a large tract of land