Rowing with the Wind

Rowing with the Wind
Directed by	Gonzalo Suárez
Produced by	Andrés Vicente Gómez
Written by	Gonzalo Suárez
Starring	Hugh Grant Lizzy McInnerny Valentine Pelka Elizabeth Hurley
Music by	Alejandro Massó
Cinematography	Carlos Suárez
Edited by	José Salcedo
Production company	Ditirambo Films
Release date	19 September 1988 (San Sebastián Film Festival)
Running time	102 minutes
Country	Spain

Rowing with the Wind a.k.a. Remando al viento (Spanish title) is a 1988 Spanish film written and directed by Gonzalo Suárez. The film won seven Goya Awards. It concerns the English writer Mary Shelley and her circle.

In the summer of 1816, English poet Percy Shelley, his soon to be wife Mary Shelley (daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft), and Mary's stepsister and companion Claire Clairmont take a holiday with Lord Byron and his physician John William Polidori at a villa rented by Byron at Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Byron challenges each of the friends to write a horror story, and Mary begins her novel, Frankenstein. She imagines the monster becoming real, and for the next six years, as tragedy befalls those around her, she believes the creature of her imagination is the cause. Meanwhile, Claire has Byron's baby, is estranged from him and barred from seeing her daughter. Byron and Percy continue their friendship, the one hedonistic, the other idealistic. The Shelleys move near Pisa.

The DVD is available to rent on websites such as Netflix.