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AMMONITE

DIRECTOR FRANCIS LEE has an uncanny knack for, if not exactly predicting world events, then making films that end up being surprisingly prescient. His debut, 2017’s , which explored xenophobia in rural Yorkshire, was released into a country dominated by Brexit. And now his second film, , concerned with isolation, is set to be released into a world shaped by COVID-19. “I hope people will find

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