Ammonite is an absorbing drama that sensationally brings together two superlative performers: Saoirse Ronan and Kate Winslet. The real Anning took comfort in her close friendship with fellow geologist Charlotte Murchison, whose own expertise seems to have equalled and predated her husband’s. Winslet plays Anning as a tough, capable but careworn woman, one grown accustomed to not declaring her feelings. This is Roderick Murchison (James McArdle) who has in tow his catatonically depressed wife Charlotte (Ronan). Of course, Charlotte and Mary’s love is not a fossil; it lives ecstatically in the flesh-and-blood present.

Source: The Guardian September 12, 2020 03:11 UTC