Mary Shelley

About the movie

Daughter of political philosophers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, who died giving birth to her, Mary is a bookish adolescent of humble means when she meets Percy Bysshe Shelley, who, though only 21, is already a celebrated young poet — and a shameless womanizer with one collapsing marriage already under his belt. Defying her beloved but disapproving father, Mary absconds with Shelley. Mary seeks unconventional approaches to living, and finds it in spades with her debt-ridden bon vivant scribe, who desires neither monogamy nor the constraints of fatherly responsibility. Two years into their union Shelley whisks Mary away to a Swiss chateau for a summer, where Mary will confront personal demons and compose the most influential horror novel of all time.
Directed by Haifaa Al Mansour (Wadjda), Mary Shelley depicts the author as a fiercely modern 19th-century woman, and her Frankenstein as the product of unbridled imagination and profound grief. It features a stellar cast of Elle Fanning (The Neon Demon), Joanne Froggatt (Downton Abbey), Tom Sturridge (The Boat that Rocked), Douglas Booth (Loving Vincent), and Maisie Williams and Stephen Dillane of Game of Thrones.
“Elle Fanning sparkles as Shelley”– IndieWire
“Mary Shelley is certainly lovely to look at” – Variety
“A luscious-looking spectacle, drenched in the colors and visceral sensations of nature” – The Hollywood Reporter

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