Ammonite uncoils romance between Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronanâs 19th century fossil hunters
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JanJanuary 2021 at 6:49pm
Winslet plays Mary Anning, who was born into a working-class family and had little-to-no formal education - and became one of her era s most important paleontologists.
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With its wave-lashed coastline, windswept period dresses and sapphic glances between on-screen lovers Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, it would be easy to compare Francis Lee s new romantic drama to Portrait of A Lady on Fire, the swooning French lesbian film that dazzled both audiences and critics.
But the British director s 19th-century slowburner, the follow-up to his widely acclaimed queer drama God s Own Country, is a less ravishing, showy affair, concerned as much with an exploration of loneliness as it is fanning the flames of new love â a portrait, at most, of a lady on very low simmer.
January 12 Blu-ray, Digital and DVD Releases
January 12 Blu-ray, Digital and DVD Releases
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In 1800s England, acclaimed but unrecognized fossil hunter Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) works alone on the rugged Southern coastline. With the days of her famed discoveries behind her, she now searches for common fossils to sell to tourists to support herself and her ailing mother. When a wealthy visitor entrusts Mary with the care of his wife Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan), she cannot afford to
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