The Tempest

The movie was firstly presented in the United States in 1982 and won the Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival and the Pasinetti Award for the best actress Susan Sarandon at the Venice film Festival.



The director Paul Mazursky takes inspiration from Shakespeare's The Tempest, but adapts it to the contemporary world and tries to show us its contradictions. He attempts to build a mental bridge between the classical plot and a new story by setting it in a modern context in which the audience can identify more easily.

 

 

 

 

 

 The plot is about Philip Dimitrius (John Cassavetes), a successful architect from New York who is in the middle of a mid-life crisis and abandons his wife (Gena Rowlands), his career and leaves for Greece with his teen-age daughter Miranda (Molly Ringwald). There, he finds a charming Greek singer, Aretha (Susan Sarandon), with whom they move on a remote island hoping that this kind of spiritual exile will help him clearing his mind. The only other resident of the island is the old hermit Kalibanos, a hairy man who lives in a cave and pities himself for being unloved. Later, also Philips's ex wife and his former employer Alonzo (Vittorio Gassman) are shipwrecked and end up on the same remote island, giving place to a general reconciliation.

 

The film shows well the opposition between the urban and the rural. The first one is represented by New York City, where Philip is stressed and taken over by problems and crisis which he cannot solve unless giving up his normal life and going to a more quiet place where his mind can become clearer and his nerves can be calmed by the beauty of the nature.

I hope you will enjoy the movie!

 

 

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