Rowing with the Wind

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.

Rowing with the Wind
Directed byGonzalo Suárez
Written byGonzalo Suárez
Produced byAndrés Vicente Gómez
StarringHugh Grant
Lizzy McInnerny
Valentine Pelka
Elizabeth Hurley
CinematographyCarlos Suárez
Edited byJosé Salcedo
Music byAlejandro Massó
Production
company
Ditirambo Films
Release date
  • September 19, 1988 (1988-09-19)
(San Sebastián International Film Festival)
Running time
2 hr 6 min (126 min) (home video)

1 hr 36 min (96 min) (Original Spanish release)

1 hr 45 min (105 min) (USA release)
CountrySpain
LanguageEnglish

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.

Cast
  • Virginia Mataix as Elisa

References
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