The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
Acting
Elle Fanning's simmering intelligence fighting period-piece constraints
Direction
Haifaa al-Mansour's first English film — subtle feminist lens on male canon
Costume
Gloomy gorgeousness that makes tuberculosis look aspirational
Director
Haifaa al-Mansour
Elle Fanning
Mary Shelley
Douglas Booth
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Bel Powley
Claire Clairmont
Stephen Dillane
William Godwin
Joanne Froggatt
Mary Jane Clairmont
Tom Sturridge
Lord Byron
Ben Hardy
Dr. John Polidori
Maisie Williams
Isabel Baxter
Hugh O'Conor
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Jack Hickey
Thomas Hogg
Derek Riddell
William Baxter
Stuart Graham
Publisher
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Haifaa al-Mansour had to direct some scenes from inside a van in her native Saudi Arabia due to restrictions on women — ironic for a film about female erasure.
The 1816 'year without a summer' — caused by volcanic eruption — trapped them indoors and sparked the ghost story contest where Frankenstein was born. Climate change wrote horror first.
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