Sally Hawkins gives a career-best performance as a mute who falls for a sea creature in this ravishing romantic fantasy where The Twilight Zone meets Puccini
Guillermo del Toro’s visually ravishing fantasy romance The Shape of Water almost drowns in its own gorgeousness. It is a Beauty and the Beast fable where both get to be beautiful and neither has to be beastly. The two of them are part of a world that Del Toro has dreamed into existence with authority, confidence and miraculous detail. His signature is unmistakable, and this is a film that insists on its own cinephilia: it is set partly in a flat positioned over a magnificent but sadly almost empty movie theatre. Floods from the bathroom come dripping down on the baffled, indignant customers below.
It is a tremendous sensory experience, but at the risk of heresy, I have to confess to finding something...
Guillermo del Toro’s visually ravishing fantasy romance The Shape of Water almost drowns in its own gorgeousness. It is a Beauty and the Beast fable where both get to be beautiful and neither has to be beastly. The two of them are part of a world that Del Toro has dreamed into existence with authority, confidence and miraculous detail. His signature is unmistakable, and this is a film that insists on its own cinephilia: it is set partly in a flat positioned over a magnificent but sadly almost empty movie theatre. Floods from the bathroom come dripping down on the baffled, indignant customers below.
It is a tremendous sensory experience, but at the risk of heresy, I have to confess to finding something...
- 2/15/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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