The trailer for Guillermo Del Toro’s quirky romantic fantasy drama, The Shape of Water has arrived with Sally Hawkins taking centre stage portraying her affection for a sea creature.
Set in the backdrop of the Cold War in 1963, Hawkins plays Elisa, a mute janitor working in a government laboratory who sparks up a heroic friendship which a fish like man herself and co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) discover in a secret lab on the grounds of the facility.
Until that is, Michael Shannon’s unpleasant evil scientist Strickland has other plans for the creature as he plans to kill the being to find out what it is and how it works.
Hawkins, who shines in a quirky role, plays a timid sweet woman, similar to her upcoming role in Maudie – Starting out the trailer in a groundhog day state, the trailer plays out in the same way one minute all sweetness and light the next oozing gloom and doom as the score changes like a yo-yo.
Accompanying Hawkins and Shannon in The Shape of Water are Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg and Doug Jones with Alexandre Desplat composing the score.
The Shape of Water Official Synopsis
From master story teller, Guillermo del Toro comes THE SHAPE OF WATER – an other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1963. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is trapped in a life of silence and isolation. Elisa’s life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) discover a secret classified experiment.
Rounding out the cast are Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg and Doug Jones.
