Saoirse Ronan is here to stay. Surprisingly born in the Bronx before making Ireland her home, Ronan has proven to be a powerhouse of talent and one of the most influential actors of her generation. Since her screen debut at the age of 9 in the 2003 medical drama “The Clinic,” Ronan has displayed remarkable …
Ammonite: Winslet and Ronan shine in sensitive film
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Ammonite
Direction: Francis Lee
BY VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY
Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan play out an intense romance in Francis Lee s bleak new arthouse effort that weaves fiction and speculation into a fabric of facts.
Lee s script is based in England of the 1800s and narrates the story of Mary Anning (Winslet), a fossil collector and palaeontologist who gained fame for her fossil findings along the English Channel. Lee borrows from an unsubstantiated slice of Mary s life to set up his narrative.
As the film begins, Mary is struggling to make ends meet. She has seen better days professionally, and when a wealthy geologist approaches Mary to entrust her with the job of looking after his ailing wife Charlotte (Ronan) while he is away on tour, she cannot afford to say no. He also purchases an ammonite that Mary found at the sea shore.
「声無き人の声を伝えたい」とフランシス・リー監督 映画「アンモナイトの目覚め」で歴史に埋もれた女性科学者のピュアな恋愛描く：時事ドットコム jiji.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jiji.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Ammonite uncoils romance between Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronanâs 19th century fossil hunters
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Winslet plays Mary Anning, who was born into a working-class family and had little-to-no formal education - and became one of her era s most important paleontologists.
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With its wave-lashed coastline, windswept period dresses and sapphic glances between on-screen lovers Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, it would be easy to compare Francis Lee s new romantic drama to Portrait of A Lady on Fire, the swooning French lesbian film that dazzled both audiences and critics.
But the British director s 19th-century slowburner, the follow-up to his widely acclaimed queer drama God s Own Country, is a less ravishing, showy affair, concerned as much with an exploration of loneliness as it is fanning the flames of new love â a portrait, at most, of a lady on very low simmer.