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...CINEMA: Androgyny Is the Answer...
...raise a tender toast to Orlando: a sensation at film festivals, a hit in Britain, and, once it opens in the U.S. next week, a bracing corrective to the cinema's annual testosterone overdose. Freely and fondly adapting Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel, English filmmaker Sally Potter brings to life a buoyant fantasy world. She imparts a brisk, lush post-modernism to a fable that scans four centuries. But Potter's real triumph is in her pert dressing of an immodest proposal. To be fully human, Orlando says, is to go civilization one better: to be man, then woman, then...
...three of the past four years, Cannes awarded its top prize to a U.S. picture, while the rest of world cinema looked on in impotent envy. This year the Americans played supporting roles. It was not so much that a Jurassic Park-size blockbuster was withheld from the festival as that Hollywood is in a profound artistic funk. Vitality, confidence and storytelling swank have evaporated; the industry seems to be working on automatic pilot...
...runs the gauntlet through variations -- some familiar, a few astonishing -- on the theme of possessive passion, and Campion ornaments her fable with film effects that are at once surreal and true to the characters and their time. If The Piano is not quite the culmination of a century of cinema art that its most fervent Cannes admirers suggest, it is surely a delicate, rending achievement...
...CINEMA: Pacific Overtures at Cannes...