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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 and a few eyebrows were raised, as you can imagine."

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 ...

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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 Stone's direction, Moira Buffini's screenplay and Mike Eley's cinematography are just as cherishable. It's 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 Favourite (2018), are being redrafted. On TV, hits such as Bridgerton and The Great rely heavily ...

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...