Mary Shelley

Showings

Mary D. Fisher Theatre Fri, Jun 15, 2018 4:00 PM
Mary D. Fisher Theatre Fri, Jun 15, 2018 7:00 PM
Mary D. Fisher Theatre Sun, Jun 17, 2018 7:00 PM
Mary D. Fisher Theatre Mon, Jun 18, 2018 4:00 PM
Mary D. Fisher Theatre Wed, Jun 20, 2018 4:00 PM
Mary D. Fisher Theatre Wed, Jun 20, 2018 7:00 PM
Mary D. Fisher Theatre Thu, Jun 21, 2018 4:00 PM
Film Info
Event Type:Narrative Feature
Release Year:2017
Run Time:121 minutes
Rating:PG-13
Production Country:United Kingdom/United States
Original Language:English
Trailer:https://youtu.be/T-WGaZaojFc
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Haifaa Al-Mansour
Cast:Elle Fanning
Douglas Booth
Tom Sturridge
Ben Hardy
Maisie Williams

Description

Her greatest love inspired her darkest creation.

She will forever be remembered as the writer who gave the world Frankenstein. But the real life story of Mary Shelley — and the creation of her immortal monster — is nearly as fantastical as her fiction.

Raised by a renowned philosopher father (Stephen Dillane) in 18th-century London, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (Elle Fanning) is a teenage dreamer determined to make her mark on the world when she meets the dashing and brilliant poet Percy Shelley (Douglas Booth). So begins a torrid, bohemian love affair marked by both passion and personal tragedy that will transform Mary and fuel the writing of her Gothic masterwork. The pair are two outsiders constrained by polite society but bound together by a natural chemistry and progressive ideas that are beyond the boundaries of their age and time.

Mary and Percy declare their love for each other and much to her family's horror they run away together, joined by Mary's half-sister Claire (Bel Powley.) In the midst of growing tension within their relationship during their stay at Lord Byron's (Tom Sturridge) house at Lake Geneva, the idea of Frankenstein is conceived when a challenge is put to all houseguests to write a ghost story.

An incredible character is created, which will loom large in popular culture for centuries to come, but society at the time puts little value in female authors. At the tender age of 18, Mary is forced to challenge these preconceptions, to protect her work and to forge her own identity.

Imbued with the imaginative spirit of its heroine, “Mary Shelley” brings to life the world of a trailblazing woman who defied convention and channeled her innermost demons into a legend for the ages.

"Mary Shelley is a luscious-looking spectacle, drenched in the colors and visceral sensations of nature, the sensuality of young lovers, the passionate disappointment of loss and betrayal.” — The Hollywood Reporter