Both convey their characters’ roiling emotions in subtle fashion, through looks, gestures and the tenderness with which they treat one another. Winslet and Ronan are excellent in roles in which dialogue is relatively sparse. The lovemaking isn’t straightforward when there are so many layers of Victorian clothing to negotiate. At one stage, Mary recites dirty limericks. A little humour creeps into the story telling. The two women behave as if an enormous weight has been lifted off them. Nitecka)Īs the attraction between Mary and Charlotte grows, the mood lightens. As the attraction between Mary (Winslet) and Charlotte (Ronan) grows, the mood lightens (Photo: Agatha A. She is shown scrambling along the shore on stormy days, getting her fingers covered in silt and mud as she digs out her precious fossils. Winslet is seldom seen on camera in the opening scenes without a severe frown on her face. As depicted here, Lyme Regis is a town in which the sun never shines. Lee shoots the film in grey natural light. Stylistically, Ammonite starts off dour in the extreme. This is a period drama more in the spirit of Jane Campion’s equally austere The Piano (1993) than that of glossy Jane Austen adaptations. Rebecca, Netflix, review: a decent turn from Lily James can’t save this bland affair He somehow persuades Mary to look after her. (It’s hinted she may have lost a child.) Roderick leaves town but doesn’t take Charlotte with him. Roderick’s wife Charlotte (Saoirse Ronan) is ailing and depressed. Mary is visited by a gentleman scientist from London, Roderick Murchison (James McArdle), who pays to be allowed to observe her at work. Kate Winslet plays Mary Anning, a palaeontologist whose skills in finding fossils on the sea shore are admired by scientists (she is called “the presiding deity of Lyme Regis”) but who still lives in very humble circumstances with her ailing but ferocious mother, Molly ( Gemma Jones). Writer-director Francis Lee dealt with a same-sex love affair between a young Yorkshire man and a Romanian migrant worker in his very striking debut feature, God’s Own Country.
Victorian-era Lyme Regis is back on screen in Francis Lee’s dark and intense romantic drama, Ammonite, which closed the London Film Festival at the weekend. “I was very young, I had only just turned 17 actually and also I had very little experience of actual intimacy in my own life, so I didn’t really know what I was doing, other than playing the character,” she said.Ĭomparing her “Ammonite” scenes with heterosexual loves scenes she’s filmed, as women, both she and Ronan were able to speak the “same physical language.It’s almost 40 years since Meryl Streep strode forlornly along Lyme Regis’s storm-swept pier in a black shawl in The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981). However, Winslet explained that when she made that film, she lacked the kind of life experience she now has. In fact, I played an LGBTQ character in the first film I ever did, ‘Heavenly Creatures’,” she said, via the Daily Mail. RELATED: Kate Winslet Talks Filming Explicit An Sex Scene With Saoirse Ronan For Lesbian Drama ‘Ammonite’: ‘I Was The Least Self-Conscious Yet’ In a new interview with The Australian, Winslet, 45, explains why her sex scenes with Ronan, 26, felt “very different” than sex scenes she’d filmed previously.
Winslet plays a paleontologist who embarks on an affair with a married woman (Saoirse), resulting in some passionate - and very graphic - sex scenes. Kate and Saoirse in a tender moment in Ammonite Credit: Planet Photos Even though he barely knew the Annings, he auctioned off his collection and gave 400, equivalent to 32,000 in today’s.
Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan are heating up the screen in “Ammonite”, a same-sex love story set in the 19th century.
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