Taken from Peter Greenaway's own words...'The film of PROSPERO'S BOOKS acknowledges its many sources in a text written by a late-sixteenth century English dramatist whose business was illusion and theatre, who wrote about an Italian scholar beholden to books, a man whose imaginative world came from his researches into Greek, Roman and Renaissance scholarship. In the making of the film, there has been an attempt to find those processes at work in image as well as in text.' ( )

Ein Muss für Greenaway Fans. The Tempest ist einer der gelungensten Filme von Peter Greenaway, insbesondere wenn man seine persönliche Zielsetzung einer destrukturierten Erzählstruktur in Betracht zieht. Das wunderbare Buch gibt neben dem Script zum Film durch Skizzen und Fotos eine gute Sichtweise auf die vielschichtige Arbeitsweise von Greenaway. ( )