Prospero's Books (1991)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.6/10   

Director:

Peter Greenaway

Escritores:

William Shakespeare (play)
Peter Greenaway (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

30 agosto 1991 (UK)

Género:

Fantasía | Drama

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...

Plot Keywords:

Urination | Bizarre | Scene Based On Painting | Surrealism | Child Nudity

Premios:

Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 3 wins & 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Amazing Scholarship

Reparto

John Gielgud	...	Prospero
Michael Clark	...	Caliban
Michel Blanc	...	Alonso
Erland Josephson	...	Gonzalo
Isabelle Pasco	...	Miranda
Tom Bell	...	Antonio
Kenneth Cranham	...	Sebastian
Mark Rylance	...	Ferdinand
Gerard Thoolen	...	Adrian
Pierre Bokma	...	Francisco
Jim van der Woude	...	Trinculo
Michiel Romeyn	...	Stephano
Orpheo	...	Ariel
Paul Russell	...	Ariel
James Thiérrée	...	Ariel

También conocida como:

L'ultima tempesta (Italy)
La tempestad (Prospero's Books) (Argentina) [es]
Prospero's Books: los libros de Próspero (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for pervasive nudity.

Duración:

124 min | 129 min

País:

Netherlands | France | UK | Italy | Japan

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.78 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Australia:M | Portugal:M/12 | Argentina:16 | Finland:K-12 | Germany:12 (bw) | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R

Locaciones de Filmación:

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Compañía:

Allarts

Trivialidades:

Some of the 'animated' books include images from (or allusions to) Eadweard Muybridge's motion studies; specifically from his eleven-volume study 'Animal Locomotion (1885)', featuring his galloping horse, running bison, and studies of walking, jumping and throwing.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en "Zomergasten: (#11.2)" (1998)

Amazing Scholarship

Shakespeare is without peer, the man of whom Harold Bloom said he invented humanity. `The Tempest' is his richest and essentially his last play, clearly about himself and his career. John Gielgud is the finest Shakespearean actor of our age. Greenaway is the most creative, lush and introspective filmmaker working.

This film is important.

I've already had one comment some time back. But on reviewing, there are two things I'd like to point you to when you see it.

Prospero is based on Shakespeare himself of course, but also on Thomas Harriot, who was a Kabbalist. Harriot had led a mission to the new world in 1585, where he wintered over with Algonquian priests. He came back convinced of having discovered a new cosmology which he never published (because of continuing trials for heresy). But he did share with Galileo, Kepler and Descartes.

Shakespeare satirized Harriot in `Love's Labors Lost' as Holofernes, because Harriot was then allied with an opposing clique (including rival poet Marlowe). But they became close as events unfolded.

The first point is to look for Thomas Harriot's only published work, about his trip to Virginia. It is the Book of Utopias, with the paintings by artist John White. Just after that the sprites act out the Indian magical circle described by Harriot.

Second: Harriot's Kabbalah is based on 21 paths that the magician can open, and one that opens automatically as part of the game of life. Here, Greenaway has Prospero open the 21 books in weaving his magic. When he closes them, the spell recedes. The 22nd is the Book of Games, which the lovers open and close. Kabbalah provides for two `invisible' paths for creating magical artifacts. This we have in the Folio and The Tempest, numbers 23 and 24.

Gielgud suggested the collaboration, and we suppose the scholarship was a joint project. But this is deep work indeed, the only production I know that understood what the play is all about.

Greenaway says: "Theres a project, I'd like very much to do, called Prospero's Creatures' about what happened before the beginning. Sort of a prelude to The Tempest. And I've also written a play called Miranda, about what happens afterwards on the ship on the way home. It's about what happens to innocence and how it has to be destroyed."

We can only hope.