Page 37 - Edith Pretty News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Ivan remembers the excitement: "They were finding a lot of things there - and I remember when the experts came in and took things over. "I thought the film was very good generally - it wasn't all completely as it was. I remember Mrs Pretty as being much older than she was in the film (Carey Mulligan who plays her is 35 and Mrs Pretty was 56 at the time of the discovery). Ivan Jacobs enjoyed the film The Dig, but felt Carey Mulligan was much younger than the real Mrs Pretty - and remembered the incident in the film when Basil Brown, played by Ralph Fiennes, was buried alive in a landslip.

Ivan remembers the excitement: "They were finding a lot of things there - and I remember when the experts came in and took things over. "I thought the film was very good generally - it wasn't all completely as it was. I remember Mrs Pretty as being much older than she was in the film (Carey Mulligan who plays her is 35 and Mrs Pretty was 56 at the time of the discovery). Ivan Jacobs enjoyed the film The Dig, but felt Carey Mulligan was much younger than the real Mrs Pretty - and remembered the incident in the film when Basil Brown, played by Ralph Fiennes, was buried alive in a landslip.

If you were to make a list of childhood dream careers, archeologist would no doubt rank highly, alongside astronaut and star athlete. And it’s easy to see why: nothing is more thrilling than the promise of discovery, the idea that the next great buried treasure could be a shovelful of dirt away. It’s a sentiment that’s made films like the Indiana Jones series both iconic and irresistible. But there is also a sad beauty to archeology, which offers us a window into our past while reminding us of our fleeting mortality. We can’t help but wonder what future archeologists will find of us, ...

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 reimagination of the real-life archaeological discoveries at Sutton Hoo in England, just before World War ...

If you would like to read this article, or get unlimited access to The Times and The Sunday Times, find out more about our special 12 week offer here