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Sometimes you just don’t want a movie to end. The characters are so vivid and multidimensional, the milieu so inviting, the circumstances so compelling, you don’t want to let go. “The Dig,” starring Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes, is such a movie. Suffolk, England, with the nation on the verge of war with Germany in 1939, may not sound comforting, but you would be surprised. Despite the prosaic title taken from the source novel by John Preston (based on the true story of the discovery of the Sutton Hoo treasure), “The Dig” is a tale bathed in warm nostalgia and a romanticism st...

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A NEW Netflix film tells the story of a former Brighton school pupil and her role in a major archaeological discovery.

Published: 2:56 PM January 29, 2021    Updated: 6:49 PM January 30, 2021 Netflix's The Dig, based on the tale of Sutton Hoo, is out now - Credit: Larry Horricks/Netflix Netflix UK's Twitter account has said it is "moving to Ipswich" because of the Suffolk accent following the release of Sutton Hoo blockbuster The Dig. The film, starring Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James, was released on the streaming service on Friday. Netflix's Twitter describes the picture as "a warm hug of a period drama at a time we *really* needed it", before reserving a "special shoutout" to the Suffolk ...

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 halves: the first starring Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan, the second more sexed up, with Lily Jam...