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Prospero's Books
Directed by
Peter Greenaway
R
1991
2h 6m
Drama
,
Fantasy
6.8
62%
82%
6.8
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An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.
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Cast of Prospero's Books
John Gielgud
Prospero
Michael Clark
Caliban
Michel Blanc
Alonso
Erland Josephson
Gonzalo
Isabelle Pasco
Miranda
Tom Bell
Antonio
Kenneth Cranham
Sebastian
Mark Rylance
Ferdinand
Marie Angel
Iris
Ute Lemper
Ceres
Deborah Conway
Juno
Paul Russell
Ariel
Gerard Thoolen
Adrian
Pierre Bokma
Francisco
Jim van der Woude
Trinculo
Michiel Romeyn
Stephano
Orpheo
Ariel
James Thierrée
Ariel
Emil Wolk
Ariel
Peter Greenaway
Director / Screenplay
Prospero's Books Ratings & Reviews
Variety
Variety Staff
The product of a feverish, overflowing imagination, this almost impossibly dense take on The Tempest displays both the director's audacious brilliance and lewd extravagance at full tilt.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Gone is any sense of drama or character; the cluttered spectacle yields no overriding design but simply disconnected MTV-like conceits or mini-ideas every three seconds.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
It cries out to not only be heard but be seen for what it wishes to convey about the act of creativity.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
Greenaway is not a frivolous film maker. He doesn't shoot a lot of material with the expectation of stumbling upon a found object within. His films are planned from the first frame to the last.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
Gielgud's voice has the ability to put you right to sleep with its bass and monotone timbre. The good news is that when you wake up, you won't have missed a thing.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
There's nothing quite like it in all of cinema -- and that's either a very good thing, or a very perplexing one, depending on how you feel about Greenaway's work.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Greenaway bombards you with images, with no regard for the average attention span. Is he a genius or a fake? Debating that question is almost as stimulating as watching a Greenaway film.
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Chris Hicks
... quite pretentious and much ado about nothing.
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
Prospero's Books references the masterpieces of the past in a manner that antagonizes our pleasure in the arts rather than enhancing it.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It is simply a work of original art, which Greenaway asks us to accept or reject on his own terms.
Austin Chronicle
Steve Davis
When all is said and done, it's a Tempest in a teapot.
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Mark R. Leeper
This is a fantasy film that does a great deal that is new but one I cannot recommend without strong reservations.
Washington Post
Joe Brown
Ravishing but incomprehensible.
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Bryant Frazer
Because Greenaway is working familiar Shakespearean territory, he and cohort Sacha Vierny run wild with the visuals, embedding frames within frames, composing each shot like an independent work of art.
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