Rowing with the Wind

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
Edited by	José Salcedo
Production company	Ditirambo Films
Release dates	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.

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
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.

External links

• Rowing with the Wind at IMDb
• Rowing with the Wind at AllMovie