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| | ‘Orlando’ (PG-13) |
 | | "Orlando" is an epic suffused with metaphysical musing and sexual politics, as Orlando, born into this privileged role, not only lives some 400 years -- from 1600 to the present -- without aging, he also changes sex. |
 | | These inexplicables are left marvelously unexplained, and as time flies and Orlando experiences love, sex, betrayal, poetry, politics, birth and death from both sides of the gender coin in several eras, the film becomes an allegory of the sexless, timeless mind, of spirits trapped within the social constructs called masculinity and femininity. |
 | | The film's producer calls "Orlando" a "$20 million film made for $4 million," and Potter conjures near-miraculous visions (watch for the ever-changing topiaries on Orlando's estate), filming in England and Russia. |
| www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/orlandopg13brown_a0adf2.htm (433 words) |
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