“The Dig” (PG) and a half
THE new year is firmly planted in history and people might be forgiven for wondering what it will bring.
That, dear readers, is a statement of the bleeding obvious by a movie reviewer who’s wondering what the new year will bring to the big screen.
It begins with “The Dig”, filmed around the place in the south of England where in 1938 a story that began more than a millennium ago, rose from the grave. Edith Pretty, the widow of a battalion commander in the Suffolk Regiment, lived on an estate at Sutton Hoo where there was a small number of barrows.
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Not an entirely smooth disinterment but satisfying all the same.
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The Dig. Simon Stone s account of the revolutionary 1939 discovery of a burial chamber that shed new light on the Dark Ages takes a somewhat awkward swerve midway from what s primarily a two-character piece into a larger ensemble drama, somewhat diffusing the emotional center. But the storytelling is laced with a gentle thread of melancholy that makes