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Shelley’s monster hit: It’s Jane Austen with sex, drugs and poetry as we meet the rebellious teenage girl who created Frankenstein, writes KATE MUIR
Mary Shelley tells the story of the creation of Frankenstein’s monster, through the eyes of the book’s teenage author.
If you’ve ever wondered how an 18-year-old girl came up with an idea so powerful and terrifying it still resonates two centuries later, this film is your answer.
Elle Fanning stars in the title role, and Douglas Booth plays her lover, poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Their wild and wanton love affair provided the emotional and intellectual education — and damage —which resulted in the sensational Frankenstein.
Fanning is terrific, pink-cheeked and full of intellectual hunger. That hunger turns sexual when 16-year-old Mary meets 21-year-old Percy on a trip to Scotland. Not long after, he is pink-eyed with opium and wine, leading her down the Gothic- romantic road to social ruin.
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