Rowing with the Wind

Original title: Remando al viento

1988
R
1h 45m

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5.8/10

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Elizabeth Hurley, Hugh Grant, Lizzy McInnerny, and José Carlos Rivas in Rowing with the Wind (1988)

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Lord Byron, poet Percy Shelley, his future wife, Mary Shelley (writing Frankenstein) and others spend the summer of 1816 together.Lord Byron, poet Percy Shelley, his future wife, Mary Shelley (writing Frankenstein) and others spend the summer of 1816 together.Lord Byron, poet Percy Shelley, his future wife, Mary Shelley (writing Frankenstein) and others spend the summer of 1816 together.

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IMDb RATING

5.8/10

1.2K

YOUR RATING

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Awards
- 10 wins & 8 nominations total

Polidori
(as Jose Luis Gomez)

Virginia Mataix

Elisa

Ronan Vibert

Fletcher

José Carlos Rivas

Criatura
(as Jose Carlos Rivas)

Kate McKenzie

Jane Williams

Jolyon Baker

Edward Williams

Terry Taplin

Godwin

Karen Westwood

Fanny

Bibiana Fernández

Fornarina
(as Bibi Andersen)

Josep Maria Pou

Oficial Aduana
(as Jose Mª Pou)

Aitana Sánchez-Gijón

Teresa Guiccioli
(as Aitana Sanchez Gijon)

Rebecca Ordovas

Allegra
(as Rebeca Ordovas)

Nicolás Moser

William
(as Nicolas Moser)

Néstor Alfonso Rojas

Tita
(as Nestor Alfonso Rojas)

Director
- Gonzalo Suárez
Writer
- Gonzalo Suárez
All cast & crew
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Trivia
On the Rachel Ray show on 3/31/15, Elizabeth Hurley was asked to name her favorite on screen kiss. She said there have been many, but her favorite would have to be in a movie a long time ago, with a man she met on the film, whom she then dated for 13 years and he's been her best friend for 15 years after that - Hugh Grant. She said it was very romantic and they were filming in Madrid.

Quotes
Mary Shelley: I am alone. Just as in the pages of my book, I have come to the icy limits of the universe, to meet the horrible creature that my imagination conceived. Where there are no shadows - no monsters can exist. Only the memory will live on... within the limits of the imagination.

Connections
Featured in Making of: Remando al viento (2006)

Soundtracks
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
(opening credits and throughout)

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Featured review

2/10

A somewhat poor treatment of an otherwise exciting moment in literary history

Badly acted, with a sense of a lack of direction, the only saving grace for this film are the wonderful settings and the score.

One would not recommend this movie to anyone other than fans of 'early Grant and Hurley', but one wonders how many of them there are!

The script is the biggest hurdle. While it contains wonderful references and allusions to the most interesting lines spoken by the historical personages, and does indeed contain some of the words of the poets, the script fills padded out with unnecessary archaisms at best and drivel at worst.

What is most strikingly dull about the work is the character of the monster. Whilst the monotony of the voice is supposed to give us certain Gothic impressions, we are left in fact with only a sense of horror at the poor delivery and rather senseless decision to characterize death and foreboding in this way.