| Director: | Guillermo del Toro |
| Cast: | Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones |
| Premiere: | 15. February 2018 |
| Length: | 119 minutes |
| Genre: | Fantasy, Drama, Adventurous |
Director: Guillermo del Toro • Scenario: Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor • Camera: Dan Laustsen • Music: Alexandre Desplat • Cast: Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, Octavia Spencer
During escalating Cold War in the early 1960s, a mute and lonely Elisa works as a cleaning lady at a high-security government laboratory where she discovers a new specimen, a mysterious marine creature. While Elisa becomes drawn to it, the facility head Richard Strickland only desires to take the creature apart to gain a scientific edge over the Soviets with the same dominance he exerts over his wife. His sickening ways are outweighed by Elisa’s black co-worker, Zelda, and gay neighbour, Giles, who provide much of the film’s comedic relief through their embodiment and subversion of the era’s stereotypes. Shot in a rich, stylised palette of greens and browns, set partly above an old but working cinema and filled with little visual effects, this other-worldly fable by master story teller Guillermo del Toro is hardly a fantasy. In essence, it is a film about tolerance, an allegory for all of history’s outcasts that attempts to shine a light on the conditions from which real monsters are born.
Length: 119 min
Year: 2017
Local premiere date: 15. February 2018
Country of origin:
Director: Guillermo del Toro • Scenario: Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor • Camera: Dan Laustsen • Music: Alexandre Desplat • Cast: Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, Octavia Spencer
During escalating Cold War in the early 1960s, a mute and lonely Elisa works as a cleaning lady at a high-security government laboratory where she discovers a new specimen, a mysterious marine creature. While Elisa becomes drawn to it, the facility head Richard Strickland only desires to take the creature apart to gain a scientific edge over the Soviets with the same dominance he exerts over his wife. His sickening ways are outweighed by Elisa’s black co-worker, Zelda, and gay neighbour, Giles, who provide much of the film’s comedic relief through their embodiment and subversion of the era’s stereotypes. Shot in a rich, stylised palette of greens and browns, set partly above an old but working cinema and filled with little visual effects, this other-worldly fable by master story teller Guillermo del Toro is hardly a fantasy. In essence, it is a film about tolerance, an allegory for all of history’s outcasts that attempts to shine a light on the conditions from which real monsters are born.
Year: 2017
Local premiere date: 15. February 2018
Country of origin:
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