TURIN, Italy — When cinematographer Dan Laustsen described his collaboration with Guillermo del Toro , he reached first for feelings rather than lenses. “It’s like trust and love,” he told the audience at the View Conference in Turin via video interview with journalist Carolyn Giardina. “We have the same taste and the same way we want to tell stories.”

That shorthand, developed across “Crimson Peak, “The Shape of Water” and “Nightmare Alley” underpins their latest partnership on “Frankenstein,” one of Del Toro’s most personal projects yet for Netflix.

From the outset, both filmmaker and cinematographer shared a visual ambition to make a film that feels classical but looks modern.

“The movement of the camera, the light – everything should feel alive and contemporary, even in this pe

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