Scorsese captivated by one of the best films of 2025

It is one of the films that appears on almost all the best of the year lists, It’s also expected to receive a slew of Oscar nominations and take more than one. But receiving heartfelt praise from a director like Martin Scorsese It must also be a considerable pride, and this goes for Guillermo del Toro that with his new and personal vision of Frankenstein has once again won the admiration of the director of Taxi Driver, One of Ours and many other titles that are cinema history. It is true that the two have been friends for a long time, but the words spoken by Scorsese are no small feat.

The same Mexican filmmaker, also winner of the Oscar for best director like his colleague and in his case for The shape of waterhas assured in an article for The Hollywood Reporter that “I have never had this reaction in 30 years. It is a massive wave of affection” and has also highlighted that, in a meeting organized by Netflix between both of them together with the main interpreters, Oscar Isaac who plays Doctor Frankenstein and Jacob Elord To his “monstrous” creation, Scorsese defined it before the audience as “an extraordinary work, and one that remains etched in memory”. He even went further confessing that “I dreamed about her” for the profound vision that Del Toro has captured, or the images that are so suggestive, terrifying and at the same time beautiful and moving. For Scorsese, achieving a “dream encounter” This level would only be within the reach of a few artists.

Although it was released for a limited time and in a small number of theaters, Frankenstein It is one of Netflix’s biggest hits right now. He has received five Golden Globe nominations.including best dramatic film, and it already appears in the first Oscar shortlists among the pre-candidates to be nominated in five sections: casting, music, visual effects, sound, hair and makeup.

But Scorsese hasn’t been the only legendary Hollywood filmmaker to surrender to del Toro’s dazzling recreation. a few weeks ago, Francis Ford Coppolaanother of the greats, stated that “We are lucky to have the cinematic genius del Toro” and praised the film for being “an elegant and unique composition about love and beauty, told in the most original and personal way”in addition to being impressed by his “beautiful images and memorable performances”.

This is what the director of the trilogy said The Godfather o Apocalypse Nowan assessment that also takes on special consideration considering that Coppola himself, after directing his successful and praised adaptation of Dracula In the 90s, he was one of the producers of the ambitious and dark adaptation of Frankenstein carried out by Kenneth Branaghwhich he himself was one step away from directing, and which unfortunately was not very well received at the time by the public and critics.