Deborah Ross

The fossil-hunting is more interesting than the sex: Ammonite reviewed

Winslet and Ronan don’t say much, but they give performances of heft and complexity

I’m not usually a sucker for BOGOF offers, but you’d be crazy to turn this one down: Kate Winslet as Mary Anning and Saoirse Ronan as Charlotte Murchison in Ammonite 
issue 27 March 2021

Ammonite is writer-director Francis Lee’s second film after God’s Own Country, one of the best films of 2017, and possibly the best film about a closeted gay Yorkshire sheep farmer falling for a migrant worker ever. This is another unlikely romance, but set in the 19th century between the real-life palaeontologist Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) and real-life Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan), whose wealthy husband had an interest in geology.

GIF Image

Disagree with half of it, enjoy reading all of it

TRY 3 MONTHS FOR $5
Our magazine articles are for subscribers only. Start your 3-month trial today for just $5 and subscribe to more than one view

Comments

Join the debate for just £1 a month

Be part of the conversation with other Spectator readers by getting your first three months for £3.

Already a subscriber? Log in