tempest be a somewhat self indulgent and uneven and discursive movie . but a lord byron and another visitor to greece and protest to his friend john murray about his similarly self indulgent and discursive don juan and it may be profligate but be it not life and be it not the thing . the connection to shakespeare tempest may seem and a another commentator here claim and a bit tenuous . but watch the film again after re read the tempest and and they will seem far closer . what make this film flaw be it uneasy mixture of straightforward normal narrative and sudden jarring apparent improvisation and particularly between cassavetes and rowland . but to be honest and these scene be the most remarkable and grip in the film and if the hard to watch . the music of this film and compose by stomu yamashta and be also overlooked . particularly fine be the perfect little piece play to accompany the afternoon siesta and a people and animal and and seemingly the entire island collapse to sleep away the hot part of the afternoon . it a sublime moment and and representative of the best aspect of this movie and the one thing that keep it somewhat unify and the fact that ( aside from extensive flashback and the very end ) it be the story of one day on an island and from awaken to night . overall and i would rather watch this film a hundred time than see some bombastic hollywood piece of crap once . and in fact and i probably have watch it several dozen time . most time and i see something i miss before . ( confession represent i be bias . this be the second movie i take my greek american goddess wife to see . ) trivia note on this flick represent it be molly ringwald first movie and as well a sam robards while it be actually not film on an island and but in gytheion and the southern tip of the remote mani peninsula of the peloponnesus of greece while the ( by today standard ) primitive special effect be do by bran ferren and who later become head of disney imagineering and and still later be an adviser to the u intelligence community while paul mazursky and the director and choose the title of his recent autobiography and show me the magic and from the script of tempest .