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Orlando's sister, or Sally Potter does Virginia Woolf in a voice of her own.

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From: Style
Date: 20010622
Author:Hollinger, Karen; Winterhalter, Teresa

The recent proliferation of film adaptations from novels written by women reflects the concern of female filmmakers for capturing women's voices on film. A focus on Potter's claims of fidelity to Woolf s authorial voice in Orlando dismantles the interpretive predispositions Potter evidences in her depiction of key scenes and concepts in the novel. In particular, the post-feminist utopian vision Potter puts forth at the film's end relies heavily on her conviction that she has captured the novel's authorial "essence," especially as she identifies it in Woolf s depiction of androgyny. But ...

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