Tempest es una película romántica de comedia dramática de aventuras estadounidense de 1982 dirigida por Paul Mazursky . Es una adaptación moderna y de base libre de la obra de William Shakespeare La tempestad . La película presenta a John Cassavetes , Gena Rowlands , Susan Sarandon , Raúl Juliá y Molly Ringwald en su debut cinematográfico. [2]
Phillip Dimitrius es un arquitecto neoyorquino de mediana edad que atraviesa una difícil crisis de la mediana edad.
Después de enterarse de que su esposa Antonia ha estado teniendo una aventura con su jefe, Alonzo, Phillip deja Nueva York y viaja a Grecia con su hija adolescente, Miranda. En Atenas conoce a Aretha Tomalin, una cantante, y se convierten en amantes. Para escapar de Alonzo y su esposa, que también vienen a Grecia, se trasladan a una remota isla griega. Phillip hace voto de celibato después de mudarse a la isla.
En la isla se encuentran con Kalibanos, un ermitaño excéntrico , que anteriormente era su único residente.
Phillip finalmente parece feliz, hasta que un día Alonzo, Antonia y otros son vistos en un barco acercándose a la isla. Una tormenta, aparentemente convocada por Phillip, hace naufragar el barco y los pasajeros desembarcan en la isla. Phillip y Antonia se reconcilian y abandonan la isla junto con Miranda.
The picture was filmed on location, including: Alypa Beach[4] on the Mani Peninsula of the Peloponnesus; Athens, Greece; Atlantic City, New Jersey; and New York City, New York. Susan Sarandon's character's last name, Tomalin, is her own maiden name. She took her husband's last name when she married Chris Sarandon. The aerial footage of New York City at the end is accompanied by the song Manhattan, sung by Dinah Washington.
The film premiered in the United States on August 13, 1982.
It was screened at various film festivals, including: the Venice Film Festival, Italy; the Toronto International Film Festival, Canada; the Davao City Film Festival, Philippines; and others.
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a rotten rating of 55% from 11 reviews.[5] Vincent Canby, film critic for The New York Times, was harsh in his review. He praised Paul Mazursky for some of his earlier works but Canby did not like this film, and wrote, "Tempest is an overblown, fancified freak of a film. Experiencing it is like watching a 10-ton canary as it attempts to become airborne. It lumbers up and down the runway tirelessly, but never once succeeds in getting both feet off the ground at the same time. The spectacle is amusing in isolated moments but, finally, exhausting."[6] Roger Ebert gave it zero stars, writing: "The movie is an ambitious experiment, but a long and tedious one, and our revels end long before Mazursky's."[7]
The film was a box office flop.
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