Rowing with the Wind
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The events that led Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to write her horror masterpiece Frankenstein provide the basis of this haunting, romantic drama. The story opens aboard a beat up schooner as it carefully makes its way through a massive broken ice pack near the North Pole. There Shelley writes her fantastic tale and reminisces about the events of the previous summer when she was courted by the poetic Percy Byshe Shelley. They elope and go to Switzerland where they become friends with dashing Lord Byron and his companion Dr. Polidori. Shelley's sister Claire accompanies them and gets romantically entangled with Byron. The group subsequently spends some idyllic almost hedonistic weeks at Byron's villa. Over the next few years, strange, tragic and troubling events occur and whenever they do, Shelley sees her monster lurking in the shadows. ~ Sandra Brennan, RoviCast
- Hugh Grant - Lord Byron
- Lizzy McInnerny - Mary Shelley
- Valentine Pelka - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Elizabeth Hurley - Claire Clairmont
- José Luis Gómez - Dr. Polidori
Credit
Yvonne Blake - Costume Designer, Salvador Pons - First Assistant Director, Gonzalo Suárez - Director, José Salcedo - Editor, Andrés Vicente Gómez - Executive Producer, Alejandro Masso - Composer (Music Score), Carlos Suarez - Cinematographer, Wolfgang Burmann - Set Designer, Reyes Abades - Special Effects, Daniel Goldstein - Sound/Sound Designer, Gonzalo Suárez - Screenwriter| Rowing Through (1996 Film), Rowdy Rathore (2012 Film) | |
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Rowing with the Wind
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| Directed by | Gonzalo Suárez |
| Produced by | Andrés Vicente Gómez |
| Written by | Gonzalo Suárez |
| Starring | Hugh Grant Lizzy McInnerny Valentine Pelka Elizabeth Hurley |
| Music by | Alejandro Massó |
| Cinematography | Carlos Suárez |
| Editing by | José Salcedo |
| Studio | Ditirambo Films |
| Release date(s) | 19 September 1988 (San Sebastián Film Festival) |
| Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country |  Spain |
Rowing with the Wind aka 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.
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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 Geneva, 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 |
DVD availability
The DVD is available to rent on websites such as Netflix.[1]
References
- ^ "Netflix's available films". Netflix. http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Rowing-with-the-Wind/60028446?trkid=148368. Retrieved 2010-09-07.
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