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Rowing with the Wind (1989)
Directed by Gonzalo Suárez
Overview
In the summer of 1816, Percy Shelley, his mistress Mary, and her stepsister Claire visit Lord Byron at Lake Geneva. Byron challenges each 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 personification of her imagination is the cause. Against this backdrop, Claire has Byron’s baby then is estranged from him and barred from her daughter. Byron and Percy continue their friendship, the one self-centered and decadent, the other wildly idealistic. The Shelleys take up residence near Pisa.
Rated R | Length 95 minutes
Actors
Hugh Grant | Lizzy McInnerny | Valentine Pelka | Elizabeth Hurley | José Luis Gómez | Aitana Sánchez-Gijón | Bibiana Fernández | Virginia Mataix | Ronan Vibert | José Carlos Rivas | Josep Maria Pou | Karen Westwood | Terence Taplin | Jolyon Baker | Kate McKenzie | Emma Amos