The Look of Love: Introducing the BFI Southbank Sally Potter Retrospective
Nov 25, 2009 | No Comments | BySophie Mayer
Sally Potter: the First British Female Director to Have a Full Career Retrospective at the BFI
At the end of Orlando, Sally Potter’s celebrated adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel, Orlando (Tilda Swinton) finds herself in The Present. She revisits the Great House in which she grew up as a young (male) Tudor courtier and which she lost when she changed sex to female in the eighteenth century. The house is now a National Trust property and Orlando, suited and booted in androgynous chocolate brown biking leathers, is surrounded by Japanese tourists as she regards a portrait of herself as a young man. Read the full story
