Haifaa al-Mansour : 2018
Sixteen-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin is a thoughtful young woman with a passion for writing and who is drawn to ghost stories. When she meets radical and charismatic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, she is convinced she has met her soulmate. So begins a torrid, bohemian love affair marked by both passion and personal tragedy. At first she relishes life amongst the radical Romantics, but as time goes on, Percy's betrayals and indiscretions begin to test their relationship. One day, on a trip to Lord Byron's mansion in Geneva, Mary is challenged to write a ghost story. Drawing on her experiences of heartbreak and the dark side of humanity, she creates 'Frankenstein', her Gothic masterwork that will shape the literary world for centuries. Imbued with the imaginative spirit of its heroine, the film brings to life the world of a trailblazing woman who defied convention and channelled her innermost demons into a legend for the ages. Haifaa al-Mansour's period drama, her second feature, premiered at Toronto International Film Festival 2017, and had its UK premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018.
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