Rowing with the Wind
Rowing with the Wind | |
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Directed by | Gonzalo Suárez |
Written by | Gonzalo Suárez |
Produced by | Andrés Vicente Gómez |
Starring | Hugh Grant Lizzy McInnerny Valentine Pelka Elizabeth Hurley |
Cinematography | Carlos Suárez |
Edited by | José Salcedo |
Music by | Alejandro Massó |
Production company | Ditirambo Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 2 hr 6 min (126 min) (home video) 1 hr 36 min (96 min) (Original Spanish release) |
Country | Spain |
Language | English |
Rowing with the Wind a.k.a. Remando al viento (Spanish title) is a 1988 Spanish film written and directed by Gonzalo Suárez. The film won seven Goya Awards. It concerns the English writer Mary Shelley and her circle.
Plot[]
In the summer of 1816, English poet Percy Shelley, his soon to be wife Mary Shelley (daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft), and Mary's stepsister and companion Claire Clairmont take a holiday with Lord Byron and his physician John William Polidori at a villa rented by Byron at Lake Leman, Switzerland. Byron challenges each of the friends to write a horror story, and Mary begins her novel, Frankenstein. She imagines the monster becoming real, and for the next six years, as tragedy befalls those around her, she believes the creature of her imagination is the cause. Meanwhile, Claire has Byron's baby, is estranged from him and barred from seeing her daughter. Byron and Percy continue their friendship, the one hedonistic, the other idealistic. The Shelleys move near Pisa.
Principal cast[]
Actor | Role |
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Hugh Grant | Lord Byron |
Lizzy McInnerny | Mary Shelley |
Valentine Pelka | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Elizabeth Hurley | Claire Clairmont |
José Luis Gómez | John Polidori |
Virginia Mataix | Elisa |
Ronan Vibert | Fletcher |
References[]
External links[]
- 1988 films
- English-language films
- Spanish biographical films
- Films about writers
- Films set in the 1810s
- Films shot in Italy
- Films shot in Madrid
- Films shot in Norway
- Films shot in Spain
- Films shot in Switzerland
- English-language Spanish films
- Spanish films
- Films set in Switzerland
- Pisa in fiction
- Cultural depictions of Lord Byron
- Cultural depictions of John Polidori
- Cultural depictions of Mary Shelley
- Cultural depictions of Percy Bysshe Shelley