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But there were true, glorious blooms of sentiment (and conversation!) in that movie too, brilliantly offsetting-and complementing-the brittle, wintry stuff. Lee’s last film, the gay sheep farmer romance God’s Own Country, was also aloof at times, colored in a similar gray palette and guarded with its emotions. Ammonite contains precious little of any of that, choosing instead to capture an imagined affair between renowned paleontologists Mary Anning and Charlotte Murchison as a dreary still life. But there must also have been some spirit, some looseness and expression and humor.

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I don’t doubt that there were binding social strictures in the past there’s plenty of documentation of that fact. It’s just a bit tiring to see yet another muted period piece that imagines life in the olden days as such a pallid slog. I don’t mean to be hard on Ammonite, which is a perfectly fine movie. It’s what a lot of Serious Cinema aims to be these days, opaque and withholding in a chilly gesture toward all the passion supposedly roiling beneath the surface.

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Directed by Francis Lee, the film (which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11) has many trappings of contemporary indie moviemaking: it’s grim, spare, and so carefully sapped of vim it can barely breathe. Millennia from now, when some unfathomable entities go sifting through the fossils of our lives, the new film Ammonite will be fine evidence of a particular time in cinema history.









Ammonite full movie