Prospero, the Right Duke of Milan
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The Tempest is a 1979 film adaptation of William Shakespeare 's play of the same name. Directed by Derek Jarman, produced by Don Boyd, with Heathcote Williams as Prospero, it also stars Toyah Willcox, Jack Birkett, Karl Johnson and Helen Wellington-Lloyd from Jarman's previous feature, Jubilee (1977). [2] Plot.
The Tempest: Directed by Derek Jarman. With Peter Bull, David Meyer, Neil Cunningham, Heathcote Williams. Banished to a forsaken island, the Right Duke of Milan and Sorcerer Prospero gets the chance to take his revenge on the King of Naples with the assistance of his airy spirit-servant, Ariel.
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- Drama, Fantasy
- Derek Jarman
- 1980-05
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- Heathcote Williams
- Derek Jarman
- Boyd's Company
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Prospero, a potent magician, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He's in exile, banished from his duchy by his usurping brother and the King of Naples. Providence brings these enemies near; aided by his vassal the spirit Ariel, Prospero conjures a tempest to wreck the Italian ship.
A shipwreck casts members of a royal court ashore on a mysterious island. Their fateful arrival is no accident, for it was engineered by Prospera (Helen Mirren), a...
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- Drama, Fantasy
- PG-13
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In The Tempest (1979), Jarman uses an astonishingly broad stylistic range – from Baroque painting to Gothic melodrama to camp – to explore Shakespeare's late masterpiece about power and love. Although The Tempest is traditionally classified as one of the Bard's comedies, it defies reduction with its fantastic range of paradoxes.
