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Film reviews: FRANKENSTEIN, BLUE MOON, IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU
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Frankenstein Guillermo del Toro’s oeuvre as director has long been entangled with soulful monsters, Gothic horror and the perils of seeking immortality, so it’s almost a shock that it has taken him this long to approach Mary Shelley’s classic tale of scientist Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac) and the creature (Jacob Elordi) created by his 19th-century experiments with reanimating the dead—but he definitely understood what to do with it.
The narrative weaves in and out of fidelity to the text, using Victor and the creature’s journey to the Arctic as a framing sequence, creating a wealthy arms…
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