PROSPERO'S BOOKS (1991)

PETER GREENAWAY

Drama Shakespeare Art House Fantasy Literary Classics Animation Recommended

Cast

SIR JOHN GIELGUD ISABELLE PASCO WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Plot

Peter Greenaway has used the very latest in new to explore the potential of film, superimposing images on each other to offer an almost unprecedented complexity of information in this stunning and extraordinary modern adaptation of The Tempest. John Gielgud is Prospero, who, in exile from Milan, transforms his tiny island into a replica of the city, complete with palace, library and gardens. Very courageous.