STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
Ammonite
MARIA DUARTE is intrigued by the life of Mary Anning, a palaeontologist and fossil collector, whose discoveries were either overlooked or appropriated by her male peers
Ammonite (15)
Directed by Francis Lee
★★★
AFTER his critically acclaimed and frankly stunning debut feature God’s Own Country, film-maker Francis Lee has turned his sights to one of the unsung heroes of British palaeontology and fossil discovery: Mary Anning.
Rather than a straight biopic, this is an imagined snapshot of Anning’s life in 1840s Lyme Regis and the intense relationship that developed between her and Charlotte Murchison (Saoirase Ronan), a young married woman sent to convalesce by the sea.
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