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Prospero's Books (1991)

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Overview

Director:
Peter Greenaway
Writers:
William Shakespeare (play)
Peter Greenaway (writer)
Release Date:
30 agosto 1991 (UK) más
Genre:
Fantasy | Drama más
Frase comercial:
A magician's spell, the innocence of young love and a dream of revenge unite to create a tempest.
Plot:
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and... más | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 3 wins & 2 nominations más
Comentarios de los usuarios:
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Additional Details

También conocida como:
Prospero's Books: los libros de Próspero (Spain) [es]
Tempestad (Prospero's Books), La (Argentina) [es]
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Duración:
129 min | 124 min
Idioma:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.78 : 1 más
Sonido:
Dolby
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Company:
Allarts más

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Prospero was John Gielgud's favorite stage role and he had attempted to mount a film of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" for decades, contacting Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa and 'Ingmar Bergman' about directing and Welles and Albert Finney about playing Caliban. The version with Welles directing and playing Caliban was in preparation until the financial failure of Welles' and Gielgud's film of 'Falstaff (1966)' forced the project to fall through, where it laid dormant until Gielgud finally convinced Peter Greenaway to make this version. más
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Entertained by beauty, 20 January 2004
Author: Renee750il de East Tennessee

I love Shakespeare, to read and to see it performed. I also loved Prospero's Books. Granted, I've only watched it twice as yet, and will undoubtedly indulge in a course of dyed-in-the-wool over-intellectualization and cerebral gymnastics during some future viewing, but these first two viewings (with a lovely bottle of Beringer Brothers White Zinfandel) were utterly given over to happily losing all perspective and immersing myself into the fantastical visual orgy spread before me. But then, I also like Heironymus Bosch and Salvador Dali.

Films are to entertain. Film makers cannot be required to entertain each and every member of the viewing public with each film. That said, there is no rule specifying just how a film must entertain us, nor is there a rule limiting any of us to being entertained in a specific form. We can be entertained by purest brain candy, the most convoluted mystery, brilliant wit, even by being frightened witless or moved to tears. In this case, I took my entertainment from the unadulterated, hedonistic beauty - both of sight and sound - offered up in a blaze of brave disregard for bourgeois ideals, and I'm not the least apologetic.

Yes, it did enrich my life, just by the sheer beauty and excess of it.

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