The Shape of Water
Elisa is a mute, isolated woman who works as a cleaning lady in a hidden, high-security government laboratory in 1962 Baltimore. Her life changes forever when she discovers the lab's classified secret -- a mysterious, scaled creature from South America that lives in a water tank. As Elisa develops a unique bond with her new friend, she soon learns that its fate and very survival lies in the hands of a hostile government agent and a marine biologist.
19 November 1949, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK
19 June 1980, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
11 February 1981
9 October 1964, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
7 March 1959, Cullowhee, North Carolina, USA
25 May 1970, Montgomery, Alabama, USA
18 April 1968, Redhill, Surrey, England, UK
5 July 1968, Long Beach, California, USA
7 August 1974, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
January 05, 2018
Del Toro's sheer joy of filmmaking is contagious, from precision chase scenes and glimpses of period TV shows like Mr. Ed and Dobie Gillis, cannily chosen to inform the story, to his gleeful homage to vintage Hollywood musicals...January 03, 2018
For all the sumptuous style and lush visuals, The Shape of Water is, at its heart, a simple fish-out-of-water story, both figuratively and literally.January 02, 2018
The Shape of Water is a eternal story for our time, about loving and being loved, speaking and being heard, and compassion for humanity.January 06, 2018
For me, this exo-world approach to metaphorical messaging pretty much died with the tide.December 14, 2017
The visual stylist spins an adult fairy tale that takes elements from "Beauty and the Beast" and recasts them in an alternative universe that's a wonderfully rendered twist on our own.January 07, 2018
Floats through its own stream of romance and drama... entrancing and wonderful.December 14, 2017
An enchanting re-imagining of "Beauty and the Beast," it is an unforgettably romantic, utterly sublime, dazzling phantasmagoria.December 22, 2017
"The Shape of Water" is director Guillermo del Toro's finest film, a lovely, empathetic tribute to Old Hollywood, monster movies, outsiders and love that could only come from the mind of the visionary filmmaker.January 05, 2018
The Shape of Water is a cinematic fight for that world, one that could be born out of creativity and dreaming. Out of romance. Out of the movies.December 19, 2017
The more I try to find some kind of justifiable meaning and relevance, the more I find The Shape of Water a loopy, lunkheaded load of drivel.December 14, 2017
"The Shape of Water" is one of the best films of the year.December 26, 2017
The movie's worldview is as easy to like as the protagonist and her friends, but del Toro lays it on so thick that there's no room for counterargument or even independent thought.