(2025, USA, 149')
In a world traversed by light and darkness, a man defies nature to create the unnatural. The Creature is born, and with it, a tragedy. Guillermo del Toro reinterprets Mary Shelley’s masterpiece with the tragic grace of a Miltonian parable: the focus shifts from the act of creation to the tormented existence of its result. Far from conventional adaptations, the film weaves myth and spirituality, horror and compassion, questioning what makes us human. A story about the pain of being created and the abyss between love and rejection, accompanied by Alexandre Desplat’s score, adding a layer of poignant lyricism.
Guillermo del Toro (Guadalajara, Mexico, 1964) is one of the most imaginative and recognizable directors in contemporary cinema. His style, a blend of horror, fairy tale, and political allegory, has redefined the boundaries of fantasy. After his debut with Cronos (1993), a Cannes award-winning cult film, he directed Mimic (1997), The Devil’s Backbone (2001), and Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), which won three Oscars and a Cannes award for production design. With The Shape of Water (2017), he won the Golden Lion in Venice and four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. Del Toro returned to Venice in 2018 as Jury President. His later works include Nightmare Alley (2021) and Pinocchio (2022), a stop-motion reinterpretation of the Italian classic, which went on to win an Oscar for Best Animated Feature. A prolific creator and refined world-builder, del Toro has pursued his deeply personal Frankenstein project for over two decades.
