Film
Ammonite
- Director
- Francis Lee
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 136 mins
Pioneering palaeontologist Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) enjoys forbidden love with married geologist Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan) in 1840s Lyme Regis in actor-turned-director Francis Lee’s follow up to his much-acclaimed, multiple award-winning gay drama God’s Own Country (“the Yorkshire Dales’ answer to Brokeback Mountain, if you will).
A lightly fictionalised biopic anchored by a brace of powerhouse perfomances, Ammonite combines intimate lesbian romance with a subtle exploration of sexism in Victorian science (Anning’s finds were frequently snaffled by whiskery men who declined her admission to their exclusive clubs).
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