MARY👏🏽SHELLEY👏🏽LOST👏🏽HER👏🏽VIRGINITY👏🏽ON👏🏽HER👏🏽MOTHER'S👏🏽GRAVE👏🏽YOU👏🏽COWARDS👏🏽

There are a lot of things this movie captures with a stunning performance from Elle Fanning. Mary went through a lot of tough things: loss, betrayal, grief, hurt, and brief moments of fleeting joys. Enjoying Haifaa al-Mansour's film Wadjdia, I definitely wanted to check this out.

Slight parallels can be found with people scoffing at Mary Shelley's ability as a woman and al-Mansour's struggles making her first film in Saudi Arabia, facing extreme limitations because of the attitudes and laws concerning her gender. Haifaa al-Mansour even noted this in the Q&A.

Vegan alerts:
-There is a scene with meat and a stuffed duck on the table.
-There is a headless frog shown. There is an attempt to galvanize/re-animate it.

Mary Shelley is braver than the US marines for being a goth who married a prep. Percy Shelley you a bitch

the dirt on this is: it's super intriguing in parts and elle is Delivering but overall it's so inconsistent and draggy it made me question my opinion on it like 7 times BUT my biggest gripe is that for a movie that repeats the concept of 'distancing oneself from other's words and finding your own voice' it fails to do just that and i feel like i've seen this exact movie 74 times before which is sad because there's so much potential w this story!!

also! quick q! why did we as a society let douglas booth as an actor happen? no thanks!

This girl lived more from ages 16-18, than I think I ever will

CIFF #7

A stuffy costume drama, but a costume drama about a very interesting person. The awkward combination of being too rushed, but any more detail would have made it feel bloated. Mary lived a hell of a life and should have had a dozen biopics by now as far as I'm concerned.

That guy that played Lord Byron should win some sort of award. I wanted to party with him and beat the tar out of him.

There are a lot of things this movie captures with a stunning performance from Elle Fanning. Mary went through a lot of tough things: loss, betrayal, grief, hurt, and brief moments of fleeting joys. Enjoying Haifaa al-Mansour's film Wadjdia, I definitely wanted to check this out.

Slight parallels can be found with people scoffing at Mary Shelley's ability as a woman and al-Mansour's struggles making her first film in Saudi Arabia, facing extreme limitations because of the attitudes and laws concerning her gender. Haifaa al-Mansour even noted this in the Q&A.

Vegan alerts:
-There is a scene with meat and a stuffed duck on the table.
-There is a headless frog shown. There is an attempt to galvanize/re-animate it.

Perfectly fine piece of craftsmanship, but I’ve not seen a film that makes manifest the phrase “who gives a shit” more. Performances are superficial and void of truth, and the pacing is much too turgid. Fine, just simply forgettable. A book report made filmic.

NOT GOTH ENOUGH

Espoo Cine 2018/4

Started out as a romance before turning into a unconventional, radical love story and melodrama. And you thought modern days were scandalous and full of loose relationships! To note Elle Fanning (excellent) and Saudi Arabian Female Director (!!!) who made Wadjda.

The soundtrack killed this movie.

Tribeca 2018

It certainly takes a lot of historical liberties, and I don't know that dramatic inkblot graphics are needed even for something as gloriously OTT as Frankenstein, but I really liked the acting (with Sturridge marvelous in the part he was basically born to play -- at the Q&A Booth revealed that that kiss was unscripted, because of course it was) and the thoughtfully feminist perspective on her life & work.

I’m usually aroused by the Victorian era anyway so needless to say this did it for me.

Mary Shelley is braver than the US marines for being a goth who married a prep. Percy Shelley you a bitch