The Swinton has got herself an Oscar. Has acted with George Clooney & Brad Pitt. And has a mini page devoted to her dresses. The Swinton is therefore a Hollywood star.
It all seems a long way from her Orlando turn and playing various mad, bad people in Derek Jarman's films. The Swinton is in particularly good form in Orlando, Sally Potter's film adaptation of the Virginia Woolf gender bending novel. Whether it be pining for a Russian princess (Potter has some great visuals recreating London's Great Frost in this section) or pledging brotherly love with Lothaire Bluteau's The Khan in its slyest scene, its hard to think of any other actress in the role. In fact The Swinton seems the last person to be a Hollywood star but there she is even though she feels all together too magnificent to be in the gossip columns under the cougars and toy boys section.
I have yet to see The Swinton's new films. Still, she seems one actress equipped to survive the cross over from interesting marginalia to Hollywood dross. The Swinton is always The Swinton.
It all seems a long way from her Orlando turn and playing various mad, bad people in Derek Jarman's films. The Swinton is in particularly good form in Orlando, Sally Potter's film adaptation of the Virginia Woolf gender bending novel. Whether it be pining for a Russian princess (Potter has some great visuals recreating London's Great Frost in this section) or pledging brotherly love with Lothaire Bluteau's The Khan in its slyest scene, its hard to think of any other actress in the role. In fact The Swinton seems the last person to be a Hollywood star but there she is even though she feels all together too magnificent to be in the gossip columns under the cougars and toy boys section.
I have yet to see The Swinton's new films. Still, she seems one actress equipped to survive the cross over from interesting marginalia to Hollywood dross. The Swinton is always The Swinton. Image Source-also has a pretty good pictorial summary of Orlando.
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