The last creature he delivered here, the aquatic being in “The Shape of Water”, swam off with the festival’s top prize in 2017 before going on to triumph at the Oscars.
Del Toro's film is an elaborate, evocative production the director said he had been dreaming about making since he was a child.
“I’ve been following the creature since I was a kid,“ the director told journalists at the Venice Film Festival ahead of the premiere.
“And now I’m in post-partum depression.”
Dozens of versions
Following the scientist obsessed with inventing his own living creature, it explores themes of humanity, vengeance, unbridled will and the aftermath of that all-consuming hubris.
Not everyone was convinced however. “Variety” said the film “cost more than ‘Titanic’ and still looks like it was made for TV”.
They range from serious takes such as “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” of 1994 from Kenneth Branagh, to Mel Brooks’s 1974 spoof “Young Frankenstein”.
“I think that the movie tries to show imperfect characters and the right we have to remain imperfect. And the right we have to understand each other under the most oppressive of circumstances,“ he said.
The Netflix-produced film will have a limited theatrical release in October before streaming in November.
While “Frankenstein” is the biggest production launching Saturday, “The Last Viking” by Danish director and writer Anders Thomas Jensen and “Below the Clouds” by Italian documentary maker Gianfranco Rosi drew enthusiastic applause at their press screenings.
“Below the Clouds” is a sumptuous black-and-white rendering of the gritty and historic Italian port of Naples by Rosi, one of Europe’s most acclaimed documentary makers who won the main prize in Venice in 2013 with “Sacro GRA”.
The Gaza war was one of the main talking points in the lead up to the festival due to an open letter denouncing the Israeli government and calling on the festival to speak out.
The letter, drafted by a group of independent directors called Venice4Palestine, has garnered more than 2,000 signatures from film professionals, organisers told AFP - AFP
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