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Mr Haylock said: "The first person Ralph looked at when coming out of a take was me, to see if he got the dialect right, but rather than run over to him each time we worked out a bit of sign language.  "Thumbs up was obvious he got it right, a beckoning meant he would come over and he would practise again, and there was a pucker of the lips for the now sound.  Behind the scenes of filming for The Dig in 2019. - Credit: Screen Suffolk "We were blowing kisses at each other throughout the takes ...

There is a gentle, old-world romance about the Netflix film The Dig, directed by Simon Stone, off a screenplay by Moira Buffini. Long tracking shots, wistful frames of the English countryside and some unforgettable visual compositions abound in this film that glides, but never really soars. Then again, it leaves you with the sense that soaring was perhaps never its intention in the first place. The film is based on John Preston’s 2007 novel of the same name (which itself is a literary reimag...

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Rating: A little like the remarkable event it dramatises — the unearthing of the famous Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk — The Dig yields treasure after treasure. The acting glitters brightest, but Simon Stones direction, Moira Buffinis screenplay and Mike Eleys cinematography are just as cherishable. Its a film of enormous, completely enveloping charm. Moreover, it is especially welcome at a time when the rules of period drama, doubtless influenced by the success of The F...

LARRY HORRICKS / NETFLIX What will survive of us in a thousand years?’ muses a Larkinian Lily James in The Dig, in which she plays an archeologist on the most important excavation of her lifetime. A coin, perhaps. Fragments of the mug she’s holding. Cogs from her lover’s watch. Little else. A very British kind of melancholy soaks this film, about the remarkable discovery in 1939 of an Anglo-Saxon longship beneath mounds of earth near the Suffolk coast. It’s a story of two ill-matched h...

Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. The Sundance Film Festival is now underway, and even with a smaller program and mostly virtual events, it has still sent bolts of excitement through the air. New movies! Fresh filmmakers! As it should be. Advertisement Festival organizers have quite shrewdly leaned into all the ways this year can be not just unusual but special, crafting a unique online experience from waiting rooms to scree...

The Dig: Carey Mulligan as Edith Pretty and Ralph Fiennes as Basil Brown 28 January, 2021 01:00 Possessor: Andrea Riseborough as Tanya Vos THE DIG (Cert 12, 111 mins, streaming from January 29 exclusively on Netflix, Drama/Romance/War) Starring: Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Johnny Flynn, Lily James, Ben Chaplin, Monica Dolan, Ken Stott. TERMINALLY-ill widow Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan) is convinced that treasures lie beneath the surface of the grassy burial mounds on...

Edith feels that the land on her estate may be home to a Viking burial ground; Basil thinks there’s something even older lurking under there. As various posh accents bump up against working-class ones, they eventually do discover quite a trove of corroded, centuries-old flotsam and jetsam, which attracts the attention of no less then the British museum. It will eventually be known as the Sutton Hoo Treasure, and were this not lifted from the real-life discovery of a major historical find, you...

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Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan discuss Netflix film The Dig, research behind preparing roles for period drama The Digs cast dissects the making of the historical drama and how director #SimonStone kept the actors “very unrehearsed, very free, very spontaneous.” Still from The Dig. Image from Twitter Godalming, England — Entirely covered by earth, only his face visible, Ralph Fiennes lay patiently in the ground. Simon Stone, th...