Rachel Tolhurst

This film is a testament to the feeling of profound loneliness that exists within human relationships. An examination of the challenging life of the brilliant authoress, whose depiction of Frankenstein's monster elicits intensely powerful emotions of solitary misery and abandonment, Mary Shelley is inspirational and heartbreaking in the same measure. Elle Fanning's performance demonstrates an extraordinary command of emotional vulnerability and experience with true melancholia.