woolf novel and orlando be witty and clever and funny and have a remarkable evenness of tone and write skill certainly for her . it be a work of an artist in possession of their craft . this film version of that book have none of those quality and while it be excellently design and shoot on a modest budget it lack intelligence and wit and purpose represent it be a pop music video . it be all surface and eye candy an winton performance incarnate that gloss . while she have a fine face and she be overtly wooden . but bad than that it have a smug and ever so cool medium study artiness a it break the frame to address the viewer . the film version be like a tier 3 university course call feminist poetics and male narrative . the mediocrity of it cinema realization be much to clear .