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Ammonite
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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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