The Tempest discussion

Has anyone watched the film?

I loved it, personally, as an imaginative adaptation, Shakespeare with a side of shrooms.

Thoughts?

I saw it when it first came out in 1991. I'm afraid I don't remember much other than I enjoyed it and that it was quite "trippy".

Artistically gorgeous, like everything Peter Greenaway makes - who always likes to remind people he trained as a painter, not a filmmaker. It shows. The adaptation is conceptual at best. John Gielgud is great in it.

I LOVED Prospero's Books. I watched it the day I finished reading "The Tempest", and although all I remember is continuous voice-overs and an old man writing, I recall very vividly that it fit my interpretation of the play a lot, and I loved it for that. I don't 'get' Greenaway often, so realizing that Greenaway somehow 'got' me enough to visualize what I thought was nice.