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.
Ammonite Review: Kate Winslet s Unblemished Performance Makes This A Treat To Watch - 3.5 Stars
Ammonite Review: Kate Winslet s Unblemished Performance Makes This A Treat To Watch - 3.5 Stars
Ammonite Review: Kate Winslet fleshes out the character with striking empathy and exactitude, Saoirse Ronan serves as the ideal foil.
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Cast: Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan
Director: Francis Lee
Francis Lee s second directorial venture
Ammonite plays out in bleak, monotonous locales. The grey, cheerless hues reflect the dour routine of the life of one of the film s two protagonists, Mary Anning, whose visage is nearly always distant, impenetrable and immutable. Anning - Kate Winslet fleshes out the character with striking empathy and exactitude - was a 19th century English paleontologist who spent her life prowling the fossil beds and cliffs along the English Channel in Lyme Regis, Dorset, ferreting for
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