Orlando

Sally Potter's spectacular, convention-breaking film views four centuries through the eyes of two genders. Tilda Swinton’s character personifies the ultimate gender fluidity: “It’s about the unavoidability of everlasting change, the only thing we can rely on”. This European co-production is also a glorious ode to England and Virginia Woolf as well as an intelligent commentary on archetypal English things such as class consciousness and repressed sexuality.

Impeccable design

This androgynous history was designed by the Dutch production designers Ben van Os and Jan Roelfs. The impeccably designed vignettes in Orlando inspired Wes Anderson’s filmed dioramas or Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette. The brilliant, original script is studied at film schools as an example of a radical, yet successful adaptation of a literary classic.

New 4K restoration.