5/15/2023 0 Comments Ammonite review![]() ![]() As such, it’s a film which plays with the authentic difficulty in this kind of clandestine courtship. A sluggish, moody character study, Ammonite examines the austere existence of Mary Anning. Kate Winslet called for greater action towards protecting children online as she picked up the award for Leading Actress at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards 2023 on Tuesday night. Though, as a follow-up to the wonderful God's Own Country, this movie does feel inferior, mostly in the relationship at the core of the story. Venue: Toronto Film Festival (Gala Presentations). Review Date February 17th, 2021 by David Krauss. Ammonite: Even the Saoirse Ronan-Kate Winslet sex scenes are too respectable Film review: Starring two great actors, this could have been an awards magnet Expand Saoirse Ronan and Kate. Ammonite is a film that thrives in its mood, a beautifully shot, visceral piece of filmmaking by Francis Lee, that shows off his ability as a storyteller, so poetic with his camera. Thus begins a transformative connection for Mary with this emotionally scarred young woman. Ammonite, in Lee’s striving for authenticity, is a film not just about forbidden attraction, but the difficulty and tentativeness for queer people in a certain time and place to act on their desires. In many ways it’s a deceptively modest work, but Ammonite just floored me I can’t think of a single aspect that could be improved upon. ![]() However, Mary’s life takes an unexpected turn when wealthy tourist Roderick Murchison (James McArdle) asks her to care for his melancholic wife Charlotte ( Saoirse Ronan ) after a personal tragedy and places her under Mary’s mentorship. Mary also spends time caring for her frail widowed mother ( Gemma Jones ), while avoiding the attentions of other townspeople including her estranged close friend Elizabeth Philpot ( Fiona Shaw). ‘Ammonite’ Review: A Dry, Plodding Affair That Fails to Find Any Heat in Its Romance. Set in the 1840s on the coastline of Lyme Regis, paleontologist and fossil collector Mary Anning ( Kate Winslet ) lives a simple and isolated existence in a family shop where she sells her findings to rich tourists, with her revolutionary findings going unappreciated by the gatekeepers of her scientific field. Returning after his breakout feature God’s Own Country, a love story between two men in modern Yorkshire, director Francis Lee ventures back in time to tell this tale of real-life figures in a fictionalised romantic drama. ![]()
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