Kate Winslet And Saoirse Ronan Star In First Preview Of Francis Lee’s Beautiful AMMONITE

From the director of GOD’S OWN COUNTRY, Francis Lee, comes his new film AMMONITE.

In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild and brutal Southern English coastline of Lyme Regis. The days of her famed discoveries behind her, she now hunts for common fossils to sell torich tourists to support herself and her ailing widowed mother. When one such tourist, Roderick Murchison, arrives in Lyme on the first leg of a European tour, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte, who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Mary, whose life is a daily struggle on the poverty line, cannot afford to turn him down but, proud and relentlessly passionate about her work, she clashes with her unwanted guest. They are two women from utterly different worlds. Yet despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realization that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.

AMMONITE also features Alec Secareanu and Gemma Jones who Lee worked with on GOD’S OWN COUNTRY.

This gorgeous film was shot by cinematographer Stéphane Fontaine and really grabs the characters on an emotional level. The music is from composers Volker Bertelmann and Dustin O’Halloran who did the scores for God’s Own Country, LION and the NetFlix movie THE OLD GUARD.

Francis wrote and directed the hugely successful debut feature film ‘God’s Own Country’ which was developed and funded by BFI and Creative England and premiered at Sundance 2017 where Francis won Best Director.

Review http://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2018/01/gods-country-review/

‘God’s Own Country’ went on to theatrical distribution worldwide, winning many awards including Best Film, Best Debut Screenwriter and Best Actor at the British Independent Film Awards; Best Film, Best Actor at the Empire Magazine Awards; Best Film at the Evening Standard Film Awards; the Michael Powell Award for Best British Film; Breakthrough British Filmmaker of the Year at the London Critics Circle Film Awards; BAFTA nomination for Outstanding British Film. ‘God’s Own Country’ was the most successful British debut film, both critically and at the box office, for 2017.

AMMONITE is a deeply personal film for Lee. He says its, “an investigation into how to navigate a relationship from deeply lonely, disconnected beginnings. How we learn how to love again after being hurt. How we can be open enough to love and be loved. How we can accept and forgive and learn through the power of a true, intimate connection.”

Look for the film in theaters on November 13, 2020.

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