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Rowing With the Wind

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At a villa overlooking Lake Geneva in the idyllic summer of 1816, Lord Byron (Hugh Grant) suggests that each of his friends write a story of horrors. Young Mary Wollstonecraft (Lizzy McInnerny) is inspired to begin her novel "Frankenstein." But as the lives of her new husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley (Valentine Pelka), and her stepsister, Claire Clairmont (Elizabeth Hurley), who has had Lord Byron's child, fall apart, Mary begins to imagine that the monster she created is behind their troubles.

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Diane Selkirk Apollo Guide Rated: 65/100 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Read all reviews

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Steve D Strong idea but way to slow. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 09/29/24 Full Review Audience Member Interesting film, which uses poetic symbols as a narrative thread, possibly that confuses the average viewer, but whoever sees it for having an interest in characters like Byron and Shelley will not be inconvenient, in particular the performances of the then young Hugh Grant deserves the four stars, the Best performance I've seen in Byron's cinema. It has a beautiful photograph, being this and the tragic representations of a passage of life of these romantic writers the most remarkable. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review ashley h Rowing with the Wind is a disappointing film. It is about the time when Mary Shelley wrote her novel "Frankenstein." Hugh Grant and Lizzy McInnerny give terrible performances. The script is badly written. Gonzalo Suarez did a horrible job directing this movie. I was not impressed with this motion picture. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Possibly the worst movie I've ever seen. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member The setting and relation with literature could have been a good material for a good story, but it did not achieved it. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Pretentious, and incoherent, and generally unbearable, despite an attractive surface appearance. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis At a villa overlooking Lake Geneva in the idyllic summer of 1816, Lord Byron (Hugh Grant) suggests that each of his friends write a story of horrors. Young Mary Wollstonecraft (Lizzy McInnerny) is inspired to begin her novel "Frankenstein." But as the lives of her new husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley (Valentine Pelka), and her stepsister, Claire Clairmont (Elizabeth Hurley), who has had Lord Byron's child, fall apart, Mary begins to imagine that the monster she created is behind their troubles.
Director
Gonzalo Suárez
Rating
R
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (DVD)
Aug 5, 2003
Runtime
2h 6m