Tagline: The life that inspired Frankenstein.
On 1814, during Regency era, Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin is a 16-years-old aspiring writer who lives in London working in the bookshop of her father, renowned writer William Godwin, married by second time with Mary Jane Clairmont after the passing of Mary’s mother, philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft, and having a stepsister, Claire Clairmont. Casually, in a travel to Scotland in the house of a William’s friends, Mary meets to the 21-years-old poet Percy Shelley, who shows a special interest on her.
Returning to London a little time later, Mary unexpectedly meets again with Percy when Percy appears on her house asking William to be his pupil. Fascinated by Percy, Mary starts a bohemian and torrid relationship with him, despite the opposition of her father and her stepmother, specially after to discover Percy as a married man with one little son. Determined to be free and live on her own terms,
Mary flees with Percy to live together, accompanied by Claire, who wants to live far from her abusive mother. But their initial happiness turns tragedy by several debts and the absence of money, in addition to the terrible loss of Mary and Percy’s daughter, who died being a few months old baby. Broken by suffering and pain, several experiences like the scientist progress and a season living with eccentric, hedonist and famous Lord Byron and doctor John Polidori turns Mary on a shadowy being, obsessed each more time with the idea to resurrect dead people.
All these events will take Mary to find her own voice to exorcise her innermost demons and writing “Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus”. But the prejudices of those times will cause that the novel be attributed to Percy Shelley, forcing Mary to fight for claim the novel as of her own.
Mary Shelley (2018)
Directed by: Haifaa Al-Mansour
Starring: Elle Fanning, Douglas Booth, Bel Powley, Tom Sturridge, Maisie Williams, Joanne Froggatt, Stephen Dillane, Douglas Booth, Derek Riddell, Hugh O’Conor, Ciara Charteris, Sarah Lamesch
Screenplay by: Emma Jensen, Haifaa Al-Mansour
Production Design: Paki Smith
Cinematography by: David Ungaro
Film Editing by: Alex Mackie
Costume Design by: Caroline Koener
Set Decoration by: Kevin Downey
Art Direction by: Nigel Pollock, Marc Ridremont
Music by: Amelia Warner
Distributed by: HanWay Films
Release Date: May 25, 2018
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