Movie Morning: Mary Shelley

Join Penrith City Libraries for a free film screening of ‘Mary Shelley’, directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour and starring Elle Fanning and Douglas Booth. Best suited for adults. Rated PG.

The movie is rated PG. The session is free, but bookings are essential.

We’re screening the movie as part of Library and Information Week (Monday 28 July to Sunday 3 August). A short, 5-minute presentation on Library resources will be given at the start of the session. 

Tea, coffee, and light refreshments will be provided. Please advise on 02 4732 78911 if you have any accessibility requirements for this event. 

About the movie

She will forever be remembered as the writer who gave the world Frankenstein. But the real-life story of Mary Shelley, and the creation of her immortal monster, is nearly as fantastical as her fiction.

Raised by a renowned philosopher father in 18th-century London, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin is a teenage dreamer determined to make her mark on the world when she meets the dashing and brilliant poet Percy Shelley. So begins a torrid, bohemian love affair marked by both passion and personal tragedy that will transform Mary and fuel the writing of her Gothic masterwork.

Imbued with the imaginative spirit of its heroine, ‘Mary Shelley’ brings to life the world of a trailblazing woman who defied convention and channelled her innermost demons into a legend for the ages.