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Both a tender love story and a sci-fi feat, The Shape of Water shows that love heeds no bounds or glass enclosures. It also shows just how important a bathtub can be for a single person on the go.
Following the life of Chiron, a young, queer Black man growing up in Miami, the film boasts sensual cinematography and weighted tones of latent sexual expression that paint a vivid and complex portrait of identity. Its masterful sex scene is one to be studied by filmmakers for years to come, as it balances subtlety with poignancy, and withholding with release.
