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
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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.

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