THE SHAPE OF WATER
Narrative Feature | 123 minutes

HIFF 2017

 Spotlight

Directed by
Guillermo del Toro

Produced by
Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale

Written by
Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor

Featuring
Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, Octavia Spencer

2017 | English | USA

As the Cold War reaches its peak in the early 1960s, Elisa (Sally Hawkins), a mute janitor working at a US government facility, finds a strange creature held deep within the laboratory. Guillermo del Toro’s THE SHAPE OF WATER is a mesmerizing continuation of his fascination with on-screen monsters and their real-world counterparts, wonderfully realized through a brilliant cast (including Michael Shannon, Octavia Spencer, and Richard Jenkins), and jaw-dropping production design and cinematography. In creating perhaps the most realized synthesis of his many preoccupations to date, del Toro has created a wondrous take on the classic monster movie that seems to exist out of time yet inseparable from our own.