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It s late summer in England, 1939. The sight and sound of RAF planes flying overhead is an ominous reminder that war looms.
The prospect of conflict troubles sensitive Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan), a young widow who owns a chunk of rural Suffolk on which large mounds of earth rise up in a flat field as if the land is infested by a gang of gargantuan moles.
The grassy knolls were the reason she and her late husband bought the property, they wanted to explore them together. Well, best laid plans… she says a little too breezily.
Red Dragon,
The Duchess, the Harry Potter films), but then again Ralph can do just about anything he doesn’t get offered many comic roles, but his histrionic mob boss was by far the best thing in Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges, and he should have won an Oscar for his delightful turn in
Grand Budapest Hotel.
He may be the greatest British actor of his generation, and his exceptional range also extends to the humble, as he proves in Simon Stone’s absorbing fact-based drama
The Dig.
It’s set in 1939 where, as storm clouds gather in the Channel, one Suffolk man has his head buried firmly in the past.