Orlando, Not Viv…I Think, 19 March 1993

Both our diaries say we went to Janie;s friend and former colleague Viv’s place for dinner, but Janie’s diary also has some temporally confounding stuff in it:

7.30 Viv dinner. 6.00 Ian for dinner.

Orlando at 7.00 (film start 7.10)

[then Viv’s Temple Fortune address, redacted for this purpose]

From memory, this scheduled evening at Viv’s was postponed, perhaps more than once, owing to Gray (Viv’s partner) being indisposed. Busy chap was Gray – I think we were supposed to have dinner with him quite a few times but only actually did so a couple of times.

Anyway, I do recall going to see Orlando with Janie very soon after it opened in the UK. Janie was very keen to see it.

Here is a link to the IMDb entry for Orlando.

Below is the movie trailer.

I remember we both found the film baffling.

Looking at the trailer a quarter of a century later, there is a lot of LGBT+? stuff in there and a lot of Fleabag-like knowing looks to the camera.

Perhaps it would make more sense to us seeing that movie now? Or perhaps not.

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