T-ZONE
Oct 16, 2020
3 minutes
JC
AMMONITE
Francis Lee’s handsome follow-up to God’s Own is an austere period drama charting the 1840s brusque romance between Lyme Regis fossil hunter Mary Anning (Kate Winslet), and melancholic wife Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan), sent to the coast to convalesce. As the sea rages, so do the emotions of the two women… Highlighting female erasure from history, patriarchal entitlement and the yoke of reproduction on women via a slow- burn, recalls and could attract similar gong conversations.
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