Raindrops dancing on a window. The still surface of a pool. A room drowned in water and a woman floating—Sleeping Beauty rocked by the sea. The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro’s new film, pools in the mind and seeps into the imagination. It’s a love story as fluid as the deep. The tale begins […]
Till the stars turn cold: ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ (2013)
Stars swirling in the cosmos. A record turning on a turntable. The camera drifts in circles over a woman lying like Millais’ Ophelia amidst a sea of books, and a man in a similar pose, clutching a lute—all set to the screeching vocals and dissonant guitar of Wanda Jackson’s ‘Funnel of Love’. This is director […]