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

I'd like to congratulate the writer and the director for managing to make such a god awful film about a woman whose life was, and still is, more fascinating and influencial than the most. One would think it's impossible to make a film about Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, a woman who lost her virginity on her mother's grave, so lacking of gothic elements; a film about the woman who invented science fiction so boring. But here it is.

maisie williams’s scottish accent omfg don’t even get me started

douglas booth is ugly as hell

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

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.

men are trash

so fucking good loved every second of it.

Elle fanning is great but something didn’t quite click. Fun anyhow

Thank goodness for the Independent cinemas.  I would have misssd this British film otherwise.  Good performances throughout and the story did not flag.

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Average. Acting not that good.

lord byron tho 😩👏🏻👏🏻

the film has a strong and well-delivering cast, but overall i found it a shame that they turned mary shelley’s life into a story mostly about romance (as if that was the only thing to keep viewers interested), making it into a bland plot of a movie you’ve probably seen a couple of times before

I love Elle Fanning in this but... where is the gothic queen story I was waiting for?? I’m a tad frustrated rn

Never date 19th-Century poets :)

Making a two hour biopic into a story isn't easy, this is fine, looks good and is acted well but it doesn't feel like anything more.