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Prospero's Books

1991 · 126 min

A dense, hypnotic art-piece where words, bodies and painted images layer over each other like a dream you must actively decode.

Tagline: A magician's spell, the innocence of young love and a dream of revenge unite to create a tempest.
Overview: An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.
How it feels: Eerie, whimsical, melancholic and absurd. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Power, revenge, art, identity
Content: Strong sexual content. Mild violence and language. No gore.
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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: power
revenge
art
identity
freedom
Places: fantasy world
sea
Era: timeless
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex strong