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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5/10

Blame It On The Monster

This film has promise that is never fulfilled. Curly-topped Hugh Grant as Lord Byron has to be seen to be believed. He wears the frilliest costumes imaginable. With long hair and chest bared, he looks like he's auditioning for a Lifetime biopic of Siegfried and Roy. One of the best (and unintentionally comical) scenes is Grant howling out on a boat. He is too fey and whimsical to make a credible Byron.

Another newcomer is a furry-browed, heavier set Elizabeth Hurley. She is beautiful. Yet, like Grant, she isn't ready for prime time. The scene where her sister, Mary, consoles her following a suicide is funny due to Hurley's exaggerated facial expressions.

The music labors on to new melodramatic Gothic depths. Music can enhance an atmosphere when the atmosphere is right. When it isn't, music only makes for another distraction.

The monster speaks in staccato. Due to editing, it's difficult to determine if he's a villain or victim. Sometimes it's difficult to determine if he even is.