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Rowing with the Wind

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Rowing with the Wind
Directed byGonzalo Suárez
Written byGonzalo Suárez
Produced byAndrés Vicente Gómez
StarringHugh Grant
Lizzy McInnerny
Valentine Pelka
Elizabeth Hurley
CinematographyCarlos Suárez
Edited byJosé Salcedo
Music byAlejandro Massó
Production
company
Ditirambo Films
Release date
Running time
96 minutes[a]
CountrySpain
LanguageEnglish

Rowing with the Wind (Spanish: Remando al viento) is a 1988 Spanish film written and directed by Gonzalo Suárez. Concerning the English writer Mary Shelley and her circle, it stars Hugh Grant, Lizzy McInnerny, Valentine Pelka, and Elizabeth Hurley. It won six Goya Awards.

Plot

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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 Leman, 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.

Cast

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Production

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Shooting locations included the Borizu Beach [es] (Asturias), Switzerland, and Venice.[2]

Reception

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Ángel Fernández-Santos of El País declared Rowing with the Wind a "very ambitious film that almost always lives up to its ambition", falling short of being a masterpiece because of a lack of interest of a few scenes and because of the small presence of actress Lizzy McInnerny in the face of the "enormity of the tragic task that the film has in store" for her character.[3]

Accolades

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Year Award Category Nominee(s) Result Ref.
1988
 San Sebastián International Film Festival Silver Shell for Best Director Gonzalo Suárez Won [2]
1989
 3rd Goya Awards Best Film Nominated
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Best Director Gonzalo Suárez Won
Best Original Screenplay Gonzalo Suárez Nominated
Best Supporting Actor José Luis Gómez Nominated
Best Cinematography Carlos Suárez Won
Best Editing José Salcedo Nominated
Goya Award for Best Original Score Alejandro Massó Nominated
Best Production Supervision José G. Jacoste Won
Best Art Direction Wolfgang Burmann Won
Best Costume Design Yvonne Blake Won
Best Makeup and Hairstyles Romana González, Josefa Morales Won
Best Sound Daniel Goldstein, Ricardo Steinberg Nominated
Best Special Effects Reyes Abades Nominated

Notes

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  1. ^ original theatrical cut

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "13. ARTISTES, SAVANTS ET PERSONNALITÉS DIVERSES de la Grande-Bretagne du XIXe s. (biographies)". Le site d'Hervé Dumont. Retrieved 23 November 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d e Muñoz, R (29 September 2023). "'Remando al viento', la película con Hugh Grant, Liz Hurley y Aitana que estuvo 58 semanas en cartel". rtve.es.
  3. ^ Fernández-Santos, Ángel (27 September 1988). "Casi una obra maestra". El País.
  4. ^ Viaje al cine español. 25 años de los Premios Goya (PDF), Lunwerg, 2011, p. 271, ISBN 978-84-9785-791-8
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