A good movie

Since this movie has a solid reputation, I was quite eager to check it out. Well, I have to admit that I always had a hard time to connect with Sally Potter's work (and, by now, I have already seen half of the movies she has directed) and I'm afraid even her most heralded movie turned out to be quite challenging. At least, there is no doubt that Orlando was quite a fascinating character. Still, even if Tilda Swinton certainly delivered a strong performance here, I wonder if she was really the right choice to play this character. Indeed, in my opinion, an even more androgenous actor/actress might have worked better. Concerning the rest of the movie, well, beside the fact that the main character was apparently immortal and changed gender half-way through, the damned thing was pretty weird which wasn't a problem but it was also terribly random. Seriously, one of the segments involving some (random) Russian characters took place almost completely on ice but why?!? Another issue was that, even you spent the whole duration only focusing on this character, you actually never get to learn Orlando at all. Basically, he/she was treated as some kind of dreamlike being which was intriguing but he/she always remained at arm's length which turned out to be rather frustrating. For example, Orlando was first a man and then a woman but, while the character argued that it didn't make any difference, it actually did and, from the moment Orlando became a woman, she started t experience the same discrimination that most women have to face during their life. Unfortunately, that's something that wasn't developed at all, in fact, they kept moving from one random scene to another random scene instead of going deeper into any theme or idea displayed in this movie. Anyway, to conclude, even if the whole thing didn't completely work for me, it was still a really intriguing tale and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.