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Mary Shelley

Life and facts of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who at 16 met 21 year old poet Percy Shelley, resulting in the writing of Frankenstein.

Director

Haifaa Al-Mansour

Year

Genre

biography, drama, history

Box Office

$108,900

Production

HanWay Films,Gidden Media,Parallel Films,BFI,Ralfish Films,Bac Cinema,Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland,Film Fund Luxembourg,Head Gear Films,Metrol Technology

Awards

2 wins & 7 nominations

Homepage

https://www.curzonartificialeye.com/mary-shelley/

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Mary Shelley

Claire Clairmont

William Godwin

Mrs. Godwin

Joanne Froggatt

Mr. Godwin

Stephen Dillane

Man #1

Isabel Baxter

Maisie Williams

William Baxter

Samuel Coleridge

Scottish Guest

Shelley

Deacon

Martin Phillips

Harriet Shelley

Ciara Charteris

Ianthe

Hunched Backed Man

Landlady

Bookseller

Laurence Foster

Girl in Park

Young Girl #2

Thomas Hogg

Eliza

Lord Byron

Scientist (as Alex Cobb)

Baby Clara

Baby Clara

The Footman

Polidori

Servant of Byron (as Wilhelmina Von Blumenthal)

Wilhelmina von Blumenthal

Publisher

Young Percy

Grooms

Candle Seller

Usher

Gilbert Johnston

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Harriet Shelley Polidori Mary Shelley Claire Clairmont Mr. Godwin Lord Byron

How fortunate we are to be
in the presence of two great minds. - Mary Shelley

How fortunate we are to be in the presence of two great mind...

GODWIN: I have a copy
of "The Iliad" in the original Greek. - Mary Shelley

GODWIN: I have a copy of "The Iliad" in the origin...

Perhaps Mary will show it
to you after dinner. - Mary Shelley

Perhaps Mary will show it to you after dinner.

Does it seem so strange that I would seek out
the tutelage of the great William Godwin? - Mary Shelley

Does it seem so strange that I would seek out the tutelage o...

To once again feel
the curdling of my blood... - Mary Shelley

To once again feel the curdling of my blood...

...and the quickening
of the beatings of my heart. - Mary Shelley

...and the quickening of the beatings of my heart.

I will be with him momentarily.
I'm quite enjoying the, uh, collection. - Mary Shelley

I will be with him momentarily. I'm quite enjoying the,...

[BOTH CHUCKLE] - Mary Shelley

All of the contradictions she embodied. - Mary Shelley

All of the contradictions she embodied.

...and live with a married man and his wife... - Mary Shelley

...and live with a married man and his wife...

[DELICATE, DRAMATIC MUSIC] - Mary Shelley

[DELICATE, DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[WIND BLOWING] - Mary Shelley

Maybe you're just waiting
for someone to reach out and... - Mary Shelley

Maybe you're just waiting for someone to reach out and....

- [THUNDER ROLLING]
- [MARY PANTING] - Mary Shelley

- [THUNDER ROLLING] - [MARY PANTING]

I think I'd rather suffer the deluge outside. - Mary Shelley

I think I'd rather suffer the deluge outside.

[GRUNTS] - Mary Shelley

...they are all part of one
gigantic, despotic system... - Mary Shelley

...they are all part of one gigantic, despotic system...

...designed to crush the soul of Man. - Mary Shelley

...designed to crush the soul of Man.

Their empty covenant has no power over us. - Mary Shelley

Their empty covenant has no power over us.

[DISTANT THUD] - Mary Shelley

[MUSIC FADES] - Mary Shelley

Your name looks so good
in that gold typeface. - Mary Shelley

Your name looks so good in that gold typeface.

- Oh, give it to me!
- [LAUGHS] - Mary Shelley

- Oh, give it to me! - [LAUGHS]

...what are all these kissings worth..." - Mary Shelley

...what are all these kissings worth..."

I am Mrs. Shelley. Harriet Shelley. - Mary Shelley

I am Mrs. Shelley. Harriet Shelley.

And this is Ianthe, our daughter. - Mary Shelley

And this is Ianthe, our daughter.

How can I help you, Mrs. Shelley? - Mary Shelley

How can I help you, Mrs. Shelley?

I have not seen him in weeks
but I have heard rumors. - Mary Shelley

I have not seen him in weeks but I have heard rumors.

Surely a wife of Mr. Shelley
would be impervious to gossip? - Mary Shelley

Surely a wife of Mr. Shelley would be impervious to gossip?

Evidently you are a stranger to scandal Miss Godwin - Mary Shelley

Evidently you are a stranger to scandal Miss Godwin

Evidently you are a stranger
to scandal, Miss Godwin. - Mary Shelley

Evidently you are a stranger to scandal, Miss Godwin.

Did you know I ran away
with Percy when I was a girl? - Mary Shelley

Did you know I ran away with Percy when I was a girl?

Idealism and love give us courage. - Mary Shelley

Idealism and love give us courage.

But they do not prepare you for the sacrifice
required to love a man like Percy. - Mary Shelley

But they do not prepare you for the sacrifice required to lo...

If I see Mr. Shelley,
I will let him know you are looking for him. - Mary Shelley

If I see Mr. Shelley, I will let him know you are looking fo...

Yes, I've been married for five years now. - Mary Shelley

Yes, I've been married for five years now.

However, Mrs. Shelley and I
are man and wife in name... only. - Mary Shelley

However, Mrs. Shelley and I are man and wife in name... only...

I continue to provide for Harriet and my
daughter Ianthe financially but that is all. - Mary Shelley

I continue to provide for Harriet and my daughter Ianthe fin...

...to bind husband
and wife to cohabitation... - Mary Shelley

...to bind husband and wife to cohabitation...

I remember saying something
like that when I was young. - Mary Shelley

I remember saying something like that when I was young.

How could you not speak
of Harriet and Ianthe? - Mary Shelley

How could you not speak of Harriet and Ianthe?

My marriage was a mistake. I believed
that I'd found in Harriet a kindred spirit. - Mary Shelley

My marriage was a mistake. I believed that I'd found in...

But time revealed only an empty, heartless
cynicism that consumed the both of us... - Mary Shelley

But time revealed only an empty, heartless cynicism that con...

...for the first time since
my marriage, I felt alive. - Mary Shelley

...for the first time since my marriage, I felt alive.

And had you known I was married, propriety
would have gotten the better of you. - Mary Shelley

And had you known I was married, propriety would have gotten...

I promise you it can be very easy to say that,
but it can be very different to live it. - Mary Shelley

I promise you it can be very easy to say that, but it can be...

- Which is what I challenge you to do now.
- You challenge me to what? - Mary Shelley

- Which is what I challenge you to do now. - You challenge m...

- To do what your heart is telling you to do...
- [SHUSHING] - Mary Shelley

- To do what your heart is telling you to do... - [SHUSHING]

...new air to fill our lungs. - Mary Shelley

...new air to fill our lungs.

[QUIET, DRAMATIC MUSIC] - Mary Shelley

[QUIET, DRAMATIC MUSIC]

See a new life that is actually
worth the living... - Mary Shelley

See a new life that is actually worth the living...

MARY: The air in this house was
stifling long before Shelley... - Mary Shelley

MARY: The air in this house was stifling long before Shelley...

...but the fact that he comes here
every day makes it even less bearable. - Mary Shelley

...but the fact that he comes here every day makes it even l...

[CHATTER] - Mary Shelley

I thought you and Mr. Godwin would
be working through the afternoon. - Mary Shelley

I thought you and Mr. Godwin would be working through the af...

I'm afraid I don't feel up to much
of anything today, Mrs. Godwin. - Mary Shelley

I'm afraid I don't feel up to much of anything tod...

Mr. Shelley seems to be suffering
from some sort of emotional anguish. - Mary Shelley

Mr. Shelley seems to be suffering from some sort of emotiona...

...you do not cultivate the same public feats
of wantonness as your dear departed mother. - Mary Shelley

...you do not cultivate the same public feats of wantonness ...

I would ask that you not
speak ill of my mother. - Mary Shelley

I would ask that you not speak ill of my mother.

At least you have not inherited
that strange deficit of hers. - Mary Shelley

At least you have not inherited that strange deficit of hers...

That foolish impulsiveness which mistook
wretchedness with emancipation. - Mary Shelley

That foolish impulsiveness which mistook wretchedness with e...

I have inherited nothing
but a fire in my soul... - Mary Shelley

I have inherited nothing but a fire in my soul...

...and I will no longer allow you,
or anyone else, to contain it. - Mary Shelley

...and I will no longer allow you, or anyone else, to contai...

Are you really involved
with that whoremonger? - Mary Shelley

Are you really involved with that whoremonger?

...you go and turn our fortunes
into yet another scandal. - Mary Shelley

...you go and turn our fortunes into yet another scandal.

Do you believe I care at all
for my reputation? - Mary Shelley

Do you believe I care at all for my reputation?

...but letting your meaningless words
scare me away from my desires. - Mary Shelley

...but letting your meaningless words scare me away from my ...

[PANTING] - Mary Shelley

SHELLEY: The sunlight clasps the Earth - Mary Shelley

SHELLEY: The sunlight clasps the Earth

We love each other.
We don't need to be married. - Mary Shelley

We love each other. We don't need to be married.

- We are only living by your beliefs.
- What do you know of living your beliefs? - Mary Shelley

- We are only living by your beliefs. - What do you know of ...

GODWIN: Do you really think you can
withstand the consequences of this? - Mary Shelley

GODWIN: Do you really think you can withstand the consequenc...

The very passions she thought were
holding her together were working... - Mary Shelley

The very passions she thought were holding her together were...

...just as diligently to tear her apart. - Mary Shelley

...just as diligently to tear her apart.

Are you really suggesting I could only be
with your daughter if we were married? - Mary Shelley

Are you really suggesting I could only be with your daughter...

How dare you? Come into my house,
you accept my hospitality... - Mary Shelley

How dare you? Come into my house, you accept my hospitality....

If you ever see Mr. Shelley again... - Mary Shelley

If you ever see Mr. Shelley again...

...prepare to lose
the love of a father, forever. - Mary Shelley

...prepare to lose the love of a father, forever.

Don't look back, Mary.
Remember, once you are gone... - Mary Shelley

Don't look back, Mary. Remember, once you are gone...

...none of this, or any
of these people, will matter at all. - Mary Shelley

...none of this, or any of these people, will matter at all.

[CARRIAGE APPROACHING] - Mary Shelley

[CARRIAGE APPROACHING]

- I guess you come as a pair.
- I couldn't leave her. - Mary Shelley

- I guess you come as a pair. - I couldn't leave her.

- Oh!
- [GENTLE, DRAMATIC MUSIC] - Mary Shelley

- Oh! - [GENTLE, DRAMATIC MUSIC]

MARY: I'm free to write what I please. - Mary Shelley

MARY: I'm free to write what I please.

[PRETENDING TO CHOKE] - Mary Shelley

[PRETENDING TO CHOKE]

...and dance, through the dance. - Mary Shelley

...and dance, through the dance.

They dance through the weary Whirl. - Mary Shelley

They dance through the weary Whirl.

Patience, patience,
though my heart is breaking. - Mary Shelley

Patience, patience, though my heart is breaking.

...of thy body thou art quit and free. - Mary Shelley

...of thy body thou art quit and free.

Heaven keep thy soul eternally! - Mary Shelley

Heaven keep thy soul eternally!

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Life and facts of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who at 16 met 21 year old poet Percy Shelley, resulting in the writing of Frankenstein.

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Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour

Writer: Emma Jensen, Haifaa Al-Mansour

Production: HanWay Films,Gidden Media,Parallel Films,BFI,Ralfish Films,Bac Cinema,Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland,Film Fund Luxembourg,Head Gear Films,Metrol Technology

Genre: biography, drama, history

Year: 2017

MetaScore: 49/100

ImdbRating: 6.4

BoxOffice: $108,900

Released: 05 Jul 2018

Awards: 2 wins & 7 nominations

Homepage: https://www.curzonartificialeye.com/mary-shelley/

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