The Shape of Water
- inventive
Warm, steady, measured romance / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
Our read · The Shape of Water (2017) reads as a warm, steady, inventive romance · fantasy · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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