The Tempest

(2010)

★ 5.3 IMDb · 138 votes

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Comedy

Year: 2010

Runtime: 111 мин

Country: India, United Kingdom

Director: Julie Taymor

Cast: Хелен Миррен, Фелисити Джонс, Reeve Carney, Дэвид Стрэтэйрн, Том Конти, Алан Камминг, Крис Купер, Бен Уишоу, Расселл Брэнд, Альфред Молина

Plot

An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Prospera (a female version of Shakespeare's Prospero) is the usurped ruler of Milan who has been banished to a mysterious island with her daughter. Using her magical powers, she draws her enemies to the island to exact her revenge.

In Writer, Producer, and Director Julie Taymor's version of "The Tempest", the main character is now a woman named Prospera (Dame Helen Mirren). Going back to the sixteenth or seventeenth century, women practicing the magical arts of alchemy were often convicted of witchcraft. In Taymor's version, Prospera is usurped by her brother and sent off with her four-year daughter on a ship. She ends up on an island; it's a tabula rasa: no society, so the mother figure becomes a father figure to Miranda (Felicity Jones). This leads to the power struggle and balance between Caliban (Djimon Hounsou) and Prospera; a struggle not about brawn, but about intellect.