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Photo: Netflix Imagine a faded photograph of a bouquet of flowers. Blushing rose has mellowed into apricot and radiant gold into the color of wheat, as what was once a tangible object with weight and scent is reduced to a scrap of paper brittled by time. Someday soon, that paper will also disintegrate, a melancholy idea that’s expressed rather poetically in director Simon Stone’s otherwise stuffy adaptation of The Dig. The subjects of this period drama are buried treasure and repressed longing, ephemeral things that—much like flowers or photographs—crumble when they’re exposed to o...

Not an entirely smooth disinterment but satisfying all the same. TWITTER 1/15/2021 Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes head the cast of Simon Stone's period drama about the excavation of an ancient burial site on an English estate as World War II looms, also featuring Lily James and Johnny Flynn. Class as much as gender constraints obscured the achievements of 19th century English paleontologist Mary Anning, magnificently played by Kate Winslet in Francis Lee's slow-burn elemental love story Ammonite. And class barriers continue to marginalize the work of Ralph Fiennes' self-taught archeologist...

Skip to main content 'The Dig' is a movie about archaeology, but it's also a lovely meditation on what lasts Michael O'Sullivan, The Washington Post Jan. 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3From top, Carey Mulligan, Archie Barnes and Ralph Fiennes in "The Dig."Larry Horricks/NetflixShow MoreShow Less 2of3Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan in "The Dig."Larry Horricks/NetflixShow MoreShow Less 3of3 On the eve of World War II, a self-taught English archaeologist, working at the behest of a Suffolk widow with a curiosity about what lay beneath several earthen mounds on her property, ma...

Wednesday 13 January 2021 In order to see this embed, you must give consent to Social Media cookies. Open my cookie preferences. It was in Suffolk - not Egypt, Turkey or Greece - that one of the most significant archeological discoveries of all time took place. In 1939 amidst the shadow of World War II, a young widow named Edith Pretty contracted a local expert to dig up the mounds in her garden in Sutton Hoo, believing them to be part of a mass ancient graveyard. Yet as Netflix’s brilliant new film The Dig dramatises, what they actually found was a huge, Anglo-Saxon longship, poss...

Ralph Fiennes’s Sutton Hoo drama, The Dig, is a beautiful, heartfelt period tale 4/5 Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and a roguish Johnny Flynn bring this Thirties-set tale of intellectual and romantic passion to life Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes in Netflix's heartfelt drama, The Dig Credit: Netflix Dir: Simon Stone. Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan, Lily James, Johnny Flynn, Ken Stott, Ben Chaplin, Monica Dolan. 12 cert, 112 mins In the summer of 1939, as a million British soldiers prepared for war, a grave was found in a field at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk. Its occupant had been buried in the ...