Films / The Shape of Water
Searchlight · 2017
The Shape of Water
- Director
- Guillermo del Toro
- Cast
- Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Octavia Spencer
- Country
- United States
- Trailer
- Searchlight Pictures
Elisa mops a government lab in 1962 and falls in love with the thing the lab is keeping in a tank. Del Toro plays the romance as a musical that never quite admits it is one. Sally Hawkins does the courtship without a line of dialogue. Michael Shannon’s Strickland thinks the tank is a weapon and the janitor is furniture. The Searchlight trailer is the water and the green. The film is the apartment above the movie theater, where the creature is a guest.