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The Tempest

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Elisabeth Welch (Actor), Heathcote Williams (Actor) Rated:
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4.2 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
IMDb6.4/10.0
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Shot on location at the ancient and ghostly Stoneleigh Abbey, the Tempest tells the story of Prospero the magician, who lives with his nubile daughter on an enchanted island and punishes his enemies when they are shipwrecked there. It's a study of sexual and political power in the guise of a fairy tale. Jarman presents Shakespeare's intricate comedy of magic and revenge in a form that is at once faithful to the spirit of the play and an original and dazzling spectacle mixing Hollywood pastiche, high camp, and gothic horror. His film recalls the innocent homoeroticism of Pasolini's versions of classics, while it's lush sense of décor and color is worthy of Minnelli.

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  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 5.92 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ KV1010BR
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Derek Jarman
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray, Multiple Formats, NTSC
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 38 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ August 7, 2012
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Elisabeth Welch, Heathcote Williams, Karl Johnson, Jack Birkett, David Meyer
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Don Boyd, Sarah Radclyffe
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Kino Lorber films
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0083Q4KCM
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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  • Steven Cain
    5.0 out of 5 stars Pigs In Zen
    Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2002
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    I'm a cheap date when it comes to Jarman. For me, the man could do no wrong. Yet personal bias aside, this is truly a classic and inspired interpretation of the Bard's last and most haunting work.
    'Canst thou remember a time before we came unto this cell?', asks the banished enchanter Prospero of his daughter Miranda. The cell being the key. The Tempest takes place in a Moorcockian artificially-sustained reality, such as in Michael's Dancers At The End Of Time and The New World's Fair.
    It is this essential element that Jarman captures so brilliantly, adding to the unreality by a number of techniques, such as the use of coloured filters and by placing his anarchic, wacked-out cast in a Gothic setting.
    The Island - the cell - is our individual sense of identity and reality, and in a fascinating interpretation which brushes the cheek of Zen and the Baghavad Gita, Jarman reveals that there is no mutant enemy, except ourselves.
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  • Malcolm Tulip
    5.0 out of 5 stars memories!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2013
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    While studying Dance/Art at Goldsmiths' college I was asked by teacher and choreographer Stuart Hopps to be one of the dancing sailors. 3 days in an abbey in mid-winter. Head rubbed by Biggins. Special performance to entertain the troops by Heathcore Williams and Neil Cunningham and anecdotes from Elizabeth Welch a true goddess as she sewed her own sequins on to her headress. Close-up of a wolf whistle!
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  • Lynn Fitzpatrick
    1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your time if you're looking for a good interpretation!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2011
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    Don't waste your time on this version of "The Tempest", if you're looking for a good interpretation!
    This one is like a San Francisco "Beach Blanket Babylon" version! The nudity and silliness is over the top!
    It should be rated R for sure. We were looking for something that represented the book, this was not it!
    I regret not turning it off and tossing it in the trash, but I kept hoping it would get better. NOT! I would be more specific, scene by scene but I would rather not think about those scenes any longer.
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  • Bert McCarthy
    3.0 out of 5 stars Imaginative but disappointing
    Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2001
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    I really wanted to like this production, and it definitely has its moments: the film is quite stylish and certainly provocative and uninhibited. Nevertheless, I am in something of a hurry to express my dismay on a number of fronts. A very important part of understanding and appreciating Shakespeare is to grasp his vision of the magical and mystical realms. The sprite-inhabited forest of "Midsummer Night's Dream" and the transformative enchantment of Arden forest in "As You Like It" are indicative of the Bard's far-reaching insight involving alternate perspectives and, yes, alternate realities. Here lies much of the abiding richness and charm of the plays, especially the comedies. I believe that Prospero and Ariel are intended to participate and represent the "Brave New World" of these realities. Thus, these characters necessarily will fall quite a bit short of expectation when they are portrayed as adynamic, dull, and manifestly unwise. The sad result is a production that lacks "spirit" and is incapable of achieving a desired goal of enchantment and upliftment. What we are left with instead is a "dance of the sailors" and a curious rendition of "Stormy Weather" -- far from satisfying, in contrast with other productions I have seen. As for the Caliban character, he needs to be presented as earthy and brutish, yes, but not, I think, maniacal. I was also puzzled about his being portrayed as being in his fifties (or sixties) when simple mathematics, not to mention tradition, would suggest a much younger creature.
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  • PETER NOBLE
    5.0 out of 5 stars Astonishing adaptation
    Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2022
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    One of the greatest directors of all time. A radical take and full of surprises.
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  • Mark B. Taylor
    5.0 out of 5 stars More Jarman than Shakespeare ...
    Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2018
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    Classic Jarman. Not much Shakespeare but the skeleton of the play is there, with lots of arresting images. And Elisabeth Welch.
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  • Doug Anderson
    4.0 out of 5 stars A Moody Gothic and Lusty Tempest
    Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2007
    This is a very strong re-imagining of Shakespeare's Tempest. Like Ken Russell (with whom Jarman served as an apprentice on a number of films), Jarman has a natural interest in and affinity for English history & literature and an equal interest in and affinity for camp which is skeptical of and often parodies traditions that it nonethless adheres to and upholds. As much of an iconoclast as Ken Russell and Derek Jarman seem to be they never stray far from the acknowledged masterpieces of literature and the way these masterpieces orient us toward the world; what they add, however, is an element of camp (or play, or polymorphous perversion, or myriad-mindedness) which draws attention to the restrictions that class and gender and race place on individuals or social actors "playing" at any given time in history. But this is, of course, what the greatest literature has always done--shown the arbitrary bounds and laws by which men and women delimit their lives. In this way the greatest literature has always been iconoclastic and Russell and Jarman fit into English tradition as well as Shakespeare and Marlowe, Byron and Shelley, Lawrence and Woolf.

    In Jarman's production there is little left of the once great Prospero but a desire to be avenged. In his mind the world wronged him and he will not be at peace with it until he sets it right again. The irony is that in seeking to set the world aright he enslaves others (Ariel and Caliban) and simply perpetuates the chain of wrongdoing that he is trying to break. The tragedy of the play is that Prospero knows that despite his efforts he really cannot make men act against their natures and that despite brief lapses of peace (occasioned by art) men will always resume their contest for power. But like many of Shakespeare's plays this is not wholly a tragedy nor wholly a comedy and so one moment we may be, along with Ariel, lamenting mans tragic fate and the next minute, along with Ariel, laughing at it. Most productions of The Tempest seem to favor either the tragic or comic element, but what Jarman does is not imbue the entire play with one mood but imbue individual characters with one or another, comic or tragic, mood. So while Prospero is imbued with a brooding & wistful melancholy that is wholly appropriate to his age and experience, his daughter Miranda is imbued with a sense of possibility and wonder that is wholly appropriate to her age and experience. The beauty of the play is that each character really inhabits their own version of the island, and lives within their own desires (or fears, for one could argue that what Caliban really fears is not having someone to serve for this would mean taking responsibility for his own reality). Of course some people might be put off by the fact that Jarman also allows each character to have their own sexuality. The campy ending, I might add, just underlines the unbridgable gulf that exists between art (where man experiences a measure of freedom and joy) and life (where man must live according to the decorums of the state.

    Jarman's eccentric cast works very well at bringing to life Shakespeare's characters and themes and enlivening them with Jarman's visual style. If Ken Russell was the perfect artist of the early 1970's in that he seemed to glorify in the fashionable excess of the age, then Jarman is perhaps the perfect late seventies/early eighties artist that seems to glorify in the excesses of character and sexuality while also realizing that those excesses/eccentricities are allowed only in the world of art and that society as a whole is not that permissive or playful. This would explain the paradoxical melancholy of Jarman's artist-angels-visionaries; they are transcendent creatures but they are, nonethless, always trapped in society and in time.

    The DVD includes three silent bonus shorts from 1971, 1972, & 1973 respectively. They are art student pieces that reveal the visionary yearnings of this essentially romantic and thus eternally melancholy artist.
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  • boydoj
    5.0 out of 5 stars interesting
    Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2013
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    not one of my favorites. this movie was confusing and difficult to follow. I was not sure how it would come together.
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  • Colin Godwin
    3.0 out of 5 stars Delivery slow.
    Reviewed in Canada on March 28, 2014
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    Watchable,but not as good quality as I expected for a Blu-Ray disc..The best version of the Tempest I have ever seen,though!
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  • STEPHENSW
    5.0 out of 5 stars Jarman brings glamour to Shakespeare - a must see
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 23, 2003
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    Finally a UK DVD release for this brilliant adaptation of The Tempest.
    Fans of Jarman will recognise a few faces from his 'Jubilee' a few years before, in particular Toyah Willcox, who at the time was just starting out in the rock world, puts in an enviable performance as Prospero's daughter Miranda and this aside from her more recent theatre work is her best performance - notably winning her a best newcomer nomination at the time.
    It was brave of Jarman to have seen a potential Miranda from the orange haired punk pyromaniac of Jubilee and thank goodness he did. Heathcote Williams is a convincing prospero holding order over his monstrous servant Caliban (Orlando) who fancies the island for himself, only to end up looking rather drunken and foolish with Christopher Biggins (well who wouldn't!).
    If you are expecting a traditional Shakespearian luvvy type film you may be dissapointed. Jarmans's film really does capture the 'sounds and sweet airs' of the island, with the eeriness dramatically contrasted by some brilliant moments such as Elisabeth Welch's amazing finale of 'Stormy Weather' possibly the beautifully campest thing ever seen in Shakespeare.
    Let's hope this sparks more of the very much missed Jarman on DVD, and also that it reminds people that Toyah is much more than just 'that woman who sang It's A Mystery'. A beautiful film.
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  • GUIDO
    4.0 out of 5 stars Buon film
    Reviewed in Italy on December 6, 2020
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    Buon film, a tratti divertente.. forse paga un po' la totale assenza di effetti speciali
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  • F. V. L. Buliciri
    5.0 out of 5 stars A visual Shakespeare feast for the eyes
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 7, 2019
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    In The Tempest (1979) Derek Jarman has created an incredible visual feast for the eyes with his adaptation of Shakespeare"s most mystical play, The Tempest.

    This version of The Tempest adopts the essential elements of the play and one is spellbound with this version of The Tempest and Derek Jarman's use of imagery. His version of The Tempest is breathtaking.

    There are amazing performances feom the cast, most notably a very young Toyah Wilcox, fresh from the success of Quadrophenia as Miranda, Karl Johnson as Ariel, Heathcote Williams as Prospero and my personal favourite was Jack Birkett as Caiban, what a naughty sorcerer.

    The legendary Elisabeth Welch singing Stormy Weather in the film is a sight and sound to behold. She certainly stirred my heart.

    I highly recommend The Tempest. You certainly wont forget this version by the unforgettable Derek Jarman.
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  • Philjoy
    1.0 out of 5 stars Wreck in the name of gaity.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 6, 2011
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    Of historical interest, I suppose, but the subtlety of Shakespeare's text is massacred in the cause of heavy-handed homosexuality. Tedious and incomprehensible in parts.
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