Mary Shelley

A luscious-looking spectacle, drenched in the colors and visceral sensations of nature, the sensuality of young lovers...a passionate film.
-- Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter

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Mary Shelley

She will forever be remembered as the writer who gave the world Frankenstein. But the real life story of Mary Shelley—and the creation of her immortal monster—is nearly as fantastical as her fiction. Raised by a renowned philosopher father (Stephen Dillane) in 18th-century London, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (Elle Fanning) is a teenage dreamer determined to make her mark on the world when she meets the dashing and brilliant poet Percy Shelley (Douglas Booth). So begins a torrid, bohemian love affair marked by both passion and personal tragedy that will transform Mary and fuel the writing of her Gothic masterwork. Imbued with the imaginative spirit of its heroine, Mary Shelley brings to life the world of a trailblazing woman who defied convention and channeled her innermost demons into a legend for the ages.
PG-13
Genre
Bio-pic, Drama, Romance, Art & Artists, Women and Film
Runtime
121
Language
English
Director
Haifaa Al-Mansour
Cast
Elle Fanning, Maisie Williams, Bel Powley, Douglas Booth, Joanne Froggatt, Stephen Dillane
FEATURED REVIEW
Allyson Johnson, The Young Folks

Haifaa al-Mansour’s 'Mary Shelley' is a great many things. It’s moody and gray; it’s lush and drowned in fog, elevated by a score that bursts from the screen, engulfing the viewers into a cocoon of atmospheric bliss. Traveling down the bumpy road that is the biopic path, al-Mansour feeds off of that ...

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