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Guillermo del Toro is flying high this year after the rapturous response to his new film, “The Shape of Water.” Put colloquially, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker says he “finally exhaled” with the film. He looked inward and asked himself, “What am I going to do that I haven’t done?” That meant allowing a certain humanity to breathe into his work in a different way than ever before, he says.
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“It’s full circle in many ways for many reasons,” del Toro says. “It started when I was six and I saw Julie Adams swimming in ‘Creature from the Black Lagoon’ and the creature is swimming underneath contemplating her. I thought, ‘What a beautiful image.’ Even at age 6 I was…
