Haifaa Al-Mansour / Mary Shelley

This week we speak to Haifaa Al-Mansour – touted as the first female filmmaker in Saudi Arabia – on her new film starring Elle Fanning and Douglas Booth, a story of the love affair between Frankenstein novelist Mary Shelley and poet Percy Shelley that resulted in the horror novel’s creation. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Om Podcasten

Welcome to the Barbican's ScreenTalks Archive where we dust off the tapes and release rarely heard recordings of live conversations with some of the world's leading filmmakers and film fans from across the decades. We curate conversations with important voices in the cinema industry and beyond, to learn more about the film and unpack the issues it raises. See upcoming ScreenTalk events at the Barbican: https://www.barbican.org.uk/screentalks  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.