
Le Feu Follet
Tout d'un coup, il m'est devenu indifférent de ne pas être moderne
Todos os dias têm a sua história, um só minuto levaria anos a contar, o mínimo gesto, o descasque miudinho duma palavra, duma sílaba, dum som, para já não falar dos pensamentos, que é coisa de muito estofo, pensar no que se pensa, ou pensou, ou está pensando, e que pensamento é esse que pensa o outro pensamento, não acabaríamos nunca mais.
In Levantado do Chão, Ed. Caminho, 14.ª ed., p. 59
In 1985, Swinton began her long collaboration with Derek Jarman, both as a friend and fellow artist. She made her screen debut in his Caravaggio (1986) and appeared in every one of the director’s films until his death from AIDS in 1994. It was for her role as the spurned queen in Jarman’s anachronistic, controversial Edward II (1992) that Swinton earned her first dose of recognition, becoming a familiar face to arthouse audiences on both sides of the Atlantic and earning a Best Actress prize at the Venice Film Festival for her work in the film. The acclaim and recognition Swinton garnered was amplified the same year with her title role in Sally Potter’s adaptation of Orlando, Virginia Woolf’s classic tale of an Elizabethan courtier who experiences drastic changes in both gender and lifestyle over the course of 400 years.