![]() Del Toro has made a fairy tale for adults that’s an inspired film all his own, as well as one of the most daring moviegoing experiences 2017 has had to offer. ![]() The Shape of Water is at once careful dramaturgy, calculated comedy, seamlessly interlaced twines of arabesque art, and moviemaking of the absolute highest order. With The Shape of Water we’ve been invited to imbibe in all things del Toro: his outstretched hand (its peaceful palm upturned for a soft touch), his glowing smile, those cherub cheeks and wide eyes lit by the memories of a childish vigor. It’s easy to feel as though you’ve been left on the outskirts of understanding, hung out to dry, trying to inhale and consume a gigantically genius story that exists inside its creator’s own expressive and hyperactive frontal lobe. ![]() Watching a Guillermo del Toro film can be an exhaustive, drowning, practically purgative process. ![]() “If I told you about her, what would I say? I wonder.” ![]()
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