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Remando al viento (1988)
Rate:
3
Viewed:
9/21
9/21:
Gothic or Remando al viento aka Rowing with the Wind?
That's the question to find out which movie is worse. Because of Ken Russell, I have to go with the former. Both deal with
the same set of characters but under different circumstances: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont,
and Dr. John Polidori.
Once again, nothing makes sense. Remando al viento either omits a lot of important details or takes too many liberties
with the truth; the pace is unbelievably slow, but things are better during the second half. The dialogue is gibberish when there
should be excerpts from each individual's work to educate me. Really, I blame it all on the writer-director.
At least, the photography is nice, and the acting is generally fine. This is the one that Hugh Grant and Elizabeth Hurley got
together for the first time before getting married. In the meantime, she might want to do something with these eyebrows of
hers. The movie was oddly produced by a Spanish company, yet everything is in English. It even won a bunch
of awards from Spain, but I shudder to think of how bad the contenders were.
I wasn't aware that Lord Byron had a limp. The date is supposed to be 1816, but Polidori didn't kill himself until five years
later. William Shelley, the son of esteemed authors, died not from drowning but malaria at age 3. The ending is a reproduction
of Louis Édouard Fournier's painting The Funeral of Shelley, but in reality, Mary didn't attend and Lord Byron had left
early.
All in all, Remando al viento is strictly for the viewers who are highly familiar with Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary
Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and Dr. John Polidori while everybody else can safely skip it.