Welcome to 060 of Choose Film: A Reel Retrospective podcast.

Stage a breakout, stick it to the man and fall in love with an aquatic creature as we discuss  Guillermo del Toro's bizarrely, beautiful 'The Shape Of Water' with editor, writer and fellow podcaster Mary Palmer.

Synopsis
Elisa is a mute, isolated woman who works as a cleaning lady in a hidden, high-security government laboratory in 1962 Baltimore. Her life changes forever when she discovers the lab's classified secret -- a mysterious, scaled creature from South America that lives in a water tank. As Elisa develops a unique bond with her new friend, she soon learns that its fate and very survival lies in the hands of a hostile government agent and a marine biologist.

Links In Conversation

Twitter - @MissMaimePeas
Twitter - @moviescramble
Twitter - @JumpCut_Online
Insta - @missmaimepeas
Insta - @moviescramble

One Of Us (Book) - Thomas Simpson
https://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Us-families-traditions-hunted/dp/1692102834/ref=sr_1_1?crid=NY8PGLI4GQA7&keywords=thomas+simpson&qid=1646079687&sprefix=thomas+simpson%2Caps%2C70&sr=8-1

Blackened (Book) - Thomas Simpson
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blackened-Thomas-Simpson/dp/B08QRXTZ9T/ref=sr_1_2?crid=NY8PGLI4GQA7&keywords=thomas+simpson&qid=1646079687&sprefix=thomas+simpson%2Caps%2C70&sr=8-2

Savage Mansion - Golden Mountain, Here I Come (album)
https://www.lostmap.com/products/savage-mansion-golden-mountain

ORPHANS - National Theatre of Scotland
https://www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/events/orphans

Mary's Bio
Mary Palmer is an editor, writer and podcaster. She's also an unapologetic lover of classic Hollywood musicals, contemporary European cinema and will always maintain that the book was better than the film.