Rowing with the Wind

Rowing with the Wind

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.^[1]

References

↑ "Netflix's available films". Netflix. Retrieved 2010-09-07.

External links

Rowing with the Wind at the Internet Movie Database
Rowing with the Wind at AllMovie

Mary Shelley

Works	History of a Six Weeks' Tour Frankenstein Mathilda Proserpine Midas Valperga "Maurice" The Last Man The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck "The Mortal Immortal" Lodore Falkner Rambles in Germany and Italy Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men

Family	Percy Bysshe Shelley (husband) Percy Florence Shelley (son) Mary Wollstonecraft (mother) William Godwin (father) Fanny Imlay (half-sister) Claire Clairmont (stepsister)

Related articles	Mounseer Nongtongpaw Frankenstein in popular culture Rowing with the Wind (1988 film) Lord Byron John Polidori Thomas Jefferson Hogg

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Plays	The Cenci (1819) Hellas (1822)

Fiction	Zastrozzi (1810) St. Irvyne (1811)

Non-fiction	"The Necessity of Atheism" (1811) "A Letter to Lord Ellenborough" (1812) "A Vindication of Natural Diet" (1813) History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817) A Philosophical View of Reform (1819-20, published 1920) "A Defence of Poetry" (published posthumously, 1840)

Poetry collections	Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire (1810) Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson (1810)

Short poems	"The Devil's Walk" (1812) "Mutability" (1816) "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (1817) "Ozymandias" (1818) "Love's Philosophy" (1819) "Ode to the West Wind" (1820) "To a Skylark" (1820) "The Cloud" (1820) "One Word is Too Often Profaned" (1822) "Music, When Soft Voices Die" (1824) "A Dirge" (1824) "England in 1819" (1834)

Long poems	Queen Mab (1813) Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude (1816) The Revolt of Islam (1818) Prometheus Unbound (1820) Epipsychidion (1821) Adonaïs (1821) Julian and Maddalo (1824) The Witch of Atlas (1824) The Triumph of Life (1824) The Masque of Anarchy (1832)

Places	Keats-Shelley Memorial House Rising Universe Shelley's Cottage Shelley Memorial

People	Lord Byron Claire Clairmont William Godwin (father-in-law) Thomas Jefferson Hogg John Keats Thomas Medwin Thomas Love Peacock Mary Shelley (wife) Percy Florence Shelley (son) Timothy Shelley (father) Edward John Trelawny

Biographies and Criticism	The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein Shelley: A Life Story

Lord Byron

Topics	Barony of Byron The Byronic hero Early life Newstead Abbey Timeline of Lord Byron

People	Anne Isabella, Lady Byron (wife) Ada Lovelace (daughter) Allegra Byron (daughter) John Byron (father) Claire Clairmont Nicolo Giraud Contessa Guiccioli Jane Harley John Cam Hobhouse Lady Caroline Lamb Augusta Leigh (half-sister) Medora Leigh Thomas Moore John William Polidori Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward John Trelawny Charles Nodier

Longer poetry	Hours of Idleness (1807) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809) The Giaour (1813) The Bride of Abydos (1813) The Corsair (1814) Lara, A Tale (1814) Hebrew Melodies (1815) The Siege of Corinth (1816) Parisina (1816) The Prisoner of Chillon (1816) The Dream (1816) Prometheus (1816) Darkness (1816) The Lament of Tasso (1817) Beppo (1818) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-1818) Don Juan (1819–1824; incomplete upon Byron's death in 1824) Mazeppa (1819) The Prophecy of Dante (1819) The Vision of Judgment (1821) The Age of Bronze (1823) The Island (1823)

Plays	Manfred (1817) Marino Faliero (1820) Sardanapalus (1821) The Two Foscari (1821) Cain (1821) Heaven and Earth (1821) Werner (1822) The Deformed Transformed (1822)

Shorter poetry	"The First Kiss of Love" (1806) "Thoughts Suggested by a College Examination" (1806) "To a Beautiful Quaker" (1807) "The Cornelian" (1807) "Lines Addressed to a Young Lady" (1807) "Lachin y Gair" (1807) "Epitaph to a Dog" (1808) "Maid of Athens, ere we part" (1810) "She Walks in Beauty" (1814) "My Soul is Dark" (1815) "The Destruction of Sennacherib" (1815) "Fare Thee Well" (1816) "When We Two Parted" (1817) "Love's Last Adieu" "So, we'll go no more a roving" (1830)

Prose	Fragment of a Novel (1819)

Related	Byron (1908 play) Lord Byron (1972 opera) Childe Byron (1977 play)

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