Rowing with the Wind

Release Date: 1988-09-19

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.

Rating: 5.597 / 10

Cast

Hugh Grant

as Lord Byron

Lizzy McInnerny

as Mary Shelley

Valentine Pelka

as Percy Bysshe Shelley

Elizabeth Hurley

as Claire Clairmont

José Luis Gómez

as Polidori

Crew

Gonzalo Suárez - Director
Andrés Vicente Gómez - Producer
Wolfgang Burmann - Production Design
Gonzalo Suárez - Writer
Carlos Suárez - Director of Photography

Reviews

badelf:

Looks like Lord Byron's castle was the location of Burning Man of the 19th century. A bit hard to follow, but a good biopic of the author of Frankenstein....