Director Guillermo del Toro calls his The Shape of Water, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, an allegorical parable about our time. And the whimsical fable set in a cold war dreamscape is a paean to love, an homage to movies and a celebration of dreamers, artists and free spirits and their triumph over the forces of hate, conflict and discrimination. All that and a film, which will delight his legions of fans. We caught him right before the screening at Palazzo del Cinema di Venezia and asked him a couple of questions.