Lock up the tots and blindfold Granny -- Peter Greenaway is at it again. The filmmaker, whose last effort, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, ended with the leading lady's serving her lover as an entree, has turned to Shakespeare's last play, The Tempest, for inspiration. John Gielgud stars as Prospero, the duke who is exiled to a Mediterranean island with his young daughter, Miranda (Isabelle Pasco), and twenty-four beloved books.

Few students of the Bard ever envisaged an island full…