Sentences with phrase «imprisoned merman»

Always a spirited devotee of old - school Hollywood genres, Guillermo del Toro achieves in his latest film, «The Shape of Water,» an inspired melding of creature feature, spy thriller and wondrously perverse love story, the latter sustained by Sally Hawkins» achingly delicate performance as Eliza, a mute cleaning lady who immediately bonds with the imprisoned merman (played, naturally, by Del Toro's prosthetic - happy muse, Doug Jones).