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MPAA Raing: R
Director: Peter Greenaway
Genres: Surrealist Film, Fantasy, Avant-garde / Experimental
Box Office: / Domestic gross: $1,560,000
Released Date: November 15, 1991 (USA)
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Summary:
Puzzle-master Peter Greenaway exposes another aspect of his peculiar obsessions to the filmgoing public. Prospero's Books uses Shakespeare as a foundation and then skips along to define its own lush territory. The books of the title are briefly referenced in +The Tempest -- Prospero is a magician who gets to keep only a small fragment of his enormous library when he is exil... Full Summary >>

Cast:
John Gielgud - (Prospero)
Michael Clark - (Caliban)
Michel Blanc - (Alonso)
Erland Josephson - (Gonzalo)
Isabelle Pasco - (Miranda)
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Review:
A radical re-interpretation of Shakespeare's The_Tempest, Peter_Greenaway's Prospero's Books stars Sir_John_Gielgud as the title character, the former Duke of Milan exiled to a remote island to live with his cherished books and daughter Miranda (Isabelle_Pasco). A linear adaptation of The_Tempest this is not, however: for Gre... Continue >>

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