"When Guillermo del Toro accepted the Bafta for best director in 2018, he used his speech to pay homage to Mary Shelley, calling her the most important figure from English legacy. She picked up the plight of Caliban and she gave weight to the burden of Prometheus, Del Toro said. She gave voice to the voiceless and presence to the invisible, and she showed me that sometimes to talk about monsters, we need to fabricate monsters of our own."
"Nearly two decades after first announcing his intention to adapt Shelley's Frankenstein, the Mexican film-maker is finally unveiling his vision of the classic at the Venice film festival. Featuring Oscar Isaac as the obsessive scientist and Jacob Elordi as the monster, the film rekindles Shelley's meditation on the fragile boundary between humanity and monstrosity. But its premiere comes in a year when Venice appears particularly fixated on monsters of every stripe."
Guillermo del Toro is unveiling his adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein at the Venice film festival, featuring Oscar Isaac as the obsessive scientist and Jacob Elordi as the monster. The film rekindles Shelley’s meditation on the fragile boundary between humanity and monstrosity. Venice's artistic director Alberto Barbera identified monsters as the festival's fil rouge, encompassing fantastical creatures and real monsters of the last century. The lineup includes political and historical films about dictators and wartime atrocities, such as Olivier Assayas's The Wizard of the Kremlin tracing Vladimir Putin's rise, Jihan K's documentary My Father and Qaddafi, and Mihai Mincan's Milk Teeth set during Nicolae Ceausescu's final days.
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