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Ammonite

Country: UK | Australia | USA, Language: English, 120 mins

  • Director: Francis Lee
  • Writer: Francis Lee
  • Producer: Iain Canning; Emile Sherman; Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly

CGiii Comment

It's cold. It's wet. It's intense...and, it is rather steamy [in two places]! Oh...and, it is ever so muddy. And...grim.

First off, let's address that great big elephant standing in the room, dressed in dungarees, playing an acoustic guitar, singing: You Make Me Feel [is that a stereotypical lesbian elephant?]. There is absolutely no evidence that Mary Anning was a lesbian. So...why portray her as such?

This seems to be a bit of a trend of recent...Shirley [Jackson] is portrayed as a voracious bisexual...yet, no evidence! What's going on? You can't just daub the sexuality-of-your-choice onto someone because you want to, because a of falsely perceived and erroneous artistic licence! Liberace won a lawsuit against a newspaper because they branded him gay! And he was as gay as a herd of pink buffaloes wearing pink tutus!

This is Francis Lee's sophomore film after the [truly] exceptional God's Own Country - with a [much] bigger budget and [Hollywood] A-listers...what a leap! And not entirely successful...in truth, the film goes nowhere. Yes, there's no faulting the performances, there's no faulting the cinematography, the score etc...but, it is beige and entirely fictional...when it needn't have been. No, this amount of artistic licence has gone too far. Here's what every filmmaker should ask themselves before and during the making of a biography...would their subject approve?

It would seem that Mary Anning has been done an injustice.


Trailer...

The(ir) Blurb...

1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.

Cast & Characters

Saoirse Ronan as Charlotte Murchison
Kate Winslet as Mary Anning
Fiona Shaw as Elizabeth Philpot
Gemma Jones as Molly Anning
Claire Rushbrook as Eleanor Butters
Alec Secareanu as Dr. Lieberson
James McArdle as Roderick Murchison
Harvey Scrimshaw as Callow Youth
Pierre Bergman as Museum Gentleman
Beatrice Curnew as Female Party Guest 1
Sam Parks as Curator
Victoria Elliott as Three Cups Maid
Wendy Nottingham as Charlotte's Maid
Max Dowler as Party Guest 3
Robert Jarvis as Dock worker