»Streaming Now: Watch Thalapathy Vijay s Master at Home, Ralph Fiennes-Carey Mulligan Remake History in The Dig
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Streaming Now: Watch Thalapathy Vijay s Master at Home, Ralph Fiennes-Carey Mulligan Remake History in The Dig
After a theatrical release, Tamil film Vijay is now available for streaming. Period film lovers can check out The Dig set in World War II era.
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Thalapathy Vijay and Vijay Sethupathi s film Master was one of the major Tamil releases which hit theatres earlier this month. For fans who are still skeptical about stepping into a movie hall, the action thriller is now available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video. The film was sold for a record price to the OTT platform for early streaming.
âFinding out about Edith Pretty was a real eye-opener,â Carey Mulligan tells British
Vogue of learning about the Suffolk landowner and archeologist Basil Brown, who together were responsible for one of the most important archeological discoveries of all time, the 1939 Anglo-Saxon ship burial excavation at Sutton Hoo. Mulligan devoured books about Pretty ahead of playing her in new Netflix film
The Dig. âReading her biography, I was just so in awe of her. She was so extraordinary. She served as a volunteer nurse in the First World War, and she travelled to Egypt and America, and lived in Paris for six months on her own. This was kind of revolutionary stuff for a woman in the time that she grew up in. I loved the idea of somebody with that capacity for learning, study and adventure.â
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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.
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The Dig turns out to be a gentle, gorgeous-looking film that provides a near-perfect balm for these difficult times. Starring the delicious combination of Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan, it tells the story of the famous archaeological dig that took place at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk just before the Second World War, although perhaps not in a way that can be taken as hard historical fact.
That’s because Moira Buffini’s screenplay is based on John Preston’s 2007 novel rather than an authoritative work of non-fiction. History, in other words, has been given a bit of a helping hand.