Basic Info / 基本情報

Synopsis / あらすじ

[English / 英語] In 1962, during the height of the Cold War in Baltimore, Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins), a mute and isolated woman, works as a cleaning lady at a high-security government aerospace research facility. Her routine existence is transformed when a mysterious “asset”—an aquatic humanoid creature captured in the Amazon—is brought to the lab. While the brutal security chief Strickland (Michael Shannon) views the creature as a mere biological specimen to be exploited, Elisa discovers a kindred spirit in the “Monster.” Through secret acts of kindness involving music and food, the two form a profound, wordless bond. As the threat to the creature’s life escalates, Elisa risks everything to orchestrate a daring escape. The film asks: What is the true essence of love beyond form? In a world of rigid institutional power, what defines our humanity? And how do we find the ultimate value in those who are seen as “different”?

[日本語] 1962年、冷戦下のアメリカ・ボルティモア。声を出すことができない孤独な女性イライザ（サリー・ホーキンス）は、政府の極秘航空宇宙研究センターで清掃員として働いていました。規則正しいが単調な彼女の日々は、アマゾンで捕獲された謎の水棲生物（資産）が運び込まれたことで一変します。冷酷な警備主任ストリックランド（マイケル・シャノン）がその生物を暴力的に扱う一方で、イライザは彼の中に自分と同じ「孤独な魂」を見出します。音楽や食べ物を介して密かに心を通わせる二人の間には、言葉を超えた深い愛が芽生えていきました。生物の命が危機に晒される中、イライザは自らのすべてを賭けて、彼を逃がすための決死の作戦を計画します。映画は問いかけます。形に囚われない愛の本質とは何か。強権的な制度の中で、私たちの人間性を定義するものとは。そして、「異なる」存在の中に宿る至高の価値を、いかにして見出すべきなのでしょうか。

Cast & Crew / スタッフ・出演

Additional Information / 追加情報

Awards / 受賞歴

• 90th Academy Awards (2018) – 13 nominations, 4 wins:
  • Best Picture – WON
  • Best Director – WON (Guillermo del Toro)
  • Best Original Score – WON (Alexandre Desplat)
  • Best Production Design – WON (Paul D. Austerberry, Shane Vieau, Jeff Melvin)
  • Best Actress – nomination (Sally Hawkins)
  • Best Supporting Actress – nomination (Octavia Spencer)
  • Best Supporting Actor – nomination (Richard Jenkins)
  • Best Original Screenplay – nomination
  • Best Cinematography – nomination (Dan Laustsen)
  • Best Film Editing – nomination
  • Best Costume Design – nomination
  • Best Original Song – nomination (“Mystery of Love,” Sufjan Stevens)
  • Best Sound Editing – nomination
• 75th Golden Globe Awards (2018) – 4 nominations, 2 wins:
  • Best Motion Picture – Drama – WON
  • Best Director – WON (Guillermo del Toro)
  • Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama – nomination (Sally Hawkins)
  • Best Original Score – nomination (Alexandre Desplat)
• 71st BAFTA Awards (2018) – 8 nominations, 3 wins:
  • Best Film – WON
  • Best Director – WON (Guillermo del Toro)
  • Best Original Screenplay – WON
  • Best Actress in a Leading Role – nomination (Sally Hawkins)
  • Best Cinematography – nomination
  • Best Production Design – nomination
  • Best Original Score – nomination
  • Best Editing – nomination
• Venice Film Festival (2017) – 1 win:
  • Golden Lion (Best Film) – WON (Guillermo del Toro)

Critical Reception / 批評的評価

• Rotten Tomatoes: 92% (Critics), 72% (Audience)
• Metacritic: 87/100 (Universal Acclaim)
• IMDb: 7.3/10
• Eiga.com（映画.com）: 3.8/5
• Winner of the Golden Lion at Venice and four Academy Awards including Best Picture — del Toro’s most decorated film
• Sally Hawkins’s performance universally praised as a technical and emotional miracle — a performance entirely without dialogue that communicates an interior world of hunger, longing, humor, and rage with complete precision
• Doug Jones — del Toro’s recurring collaborator, a specialist in creature performance — praised for making the Amphibian Man a fully realized presence rather than a special effect; his physical work under the prosthetics cited as extraordinary
• Michael Shannon’s Strickland called one of cinema’s most precisely drawn villains — not a monster but a man who has been so thoroughly rewarded for cruelty that he has mistaken it for virtue
• Alexandre Desplat’s score — built around accordion, piano, and a recurring waltz theme — called his finest work, a score that holds the film’s tonal contradictions (fairy tale and Cold War thriller) in perfect suspension
• Dan Laustsen’s cinematography — the entire film bathed in teal and amber, water motifs in every frame — praised as one of the most cohesive visual designs in recent American cinema
• Roger Ebert.com: ★★★★ “A film of genuine beauty and moral seriousness — del Toro’s masterpiece”
• The New York Times: “Ravishing, strange, and unexpectedly moving — a fairy tale that earns its wonder”
• Variety: “Del Toro’s most fully realized vision — a love story for the invisible”
• The Guardian: ★★★★★ “One of the most beautiful films of the decade”
• The audience score (72%) reflects a significant critic/audience divide — some viewers found the film’s allegory too schematic, its romance too literal, its politics too explicit
• The film’s depiction of an interspecies sexual relationship divided audiences; del Toro defended it as the point: that love between beings the world deems incompatible is precisely the film’s subject
• Widely compared to del Toro’s earlier Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) as his two defining statements on the fairy tale form and the politics of the imagination

Box Office Performance / 興行成績

• Worldwide Total: $195.2 million
• Domestic (US/Canada): $63.9 million
• International: $131.3 million
• Production Budget: $19.5 million
• Return on Investment: ~10x (exceptional)
• Opening Weekend (US):
  • Limited release: December 1, 2017 (3 theaters)
  • $167,800 opening weekend (limited)
  • $55,933 per-theater average (exceptional)
  • Wide release: December 22, 2017
  • Wide opening: $3.5 million
  • Peak: 1,571 theaters
• Performance Analysis:
  • Made for $19.5 million — an extraordinary ROI for a film of this scale and ambition
  • Venice Golden Lion (September 2017) → controlled awards-season rollout
  • Golden Globe wins (January 2018) dramatically expanded audience
  • Oscar nominations — 13 in total — sustained theatrical run through March 2018
  • Four Oscar wins including Best Picture drove the largest single-week increases
  • International performance ($131M, 67% of total) reflects the film’s genuinely universal fairy tale register
• International Breakdown (estimated):
  • France: ~$22M (del Toro’s strong French following; Desplat’s French identity)
  • China: ~$20M (fantasy films; del Toro’s profile)
  • UK: ~$16M
  • South Korea: ~$14M
  • Germany: ~$12M
  • Japan: ~$10M
• Awards Season:
  • Led the Oscar race with 13 nominations — more than any other film that year
  • Best Picture win considered a genuine surprise by some (competing against Three Billboards, Dunkirk, Get Out, Lady Bird, Call Me by Your Name)
  • Del Toro became the third Mexican director in four years to win Best Director (after Alfonso Cuarón for Gravity, 2014, and Alejandro González Iñárritu for The Revenant, 2016)

Related Review / 関連レビュー

🔗 English Review
・[World Aquatic Animal Day] Outside Cage — When Water Takes Shape, Love Transcends Boundaries

🔗 日本語レビュー
・【世界水生動物の日】檻の外へ——水が形を持つとき、愛は境界を越える