Directed by:
Francis LeeScreenplay:
Francis LeeCinematography:
Stéphane FontaineCast:
Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Fiona Shaw, Gemma Jones, Alec Secareanu, Claire Rushbrook, James McArdle, Wendy NottinghamVOD (4)
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Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) devotes her days on Southwest England’s Dorset coast to finding and cataloguing fossils of ammonites, extinct and beautiful sea creatures. In the early 19th century this is no work for a woman, and no scientific society will have her. So Mary toils alone, even as male scientists visit to study and take credit for her work. When one visitor brings along his grieving wife, Charlotte (Saoirse Ronan), then abandons her there to return to London, the two women have no one to turn to but each other. (Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Kate Winslet
UK
Best movies:
Titanic (1997)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Finding Neverland (2004)
Saoirse Ronan
USA
Best movies:
Loving Vincent (2017)
Atonement (2007)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Fiona Shaw
Ireland
Best movies:
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
My Left Foot (1989)
Gormenghast (2000) (series)
Gemma Jones
UK
Best movies:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) (series)
Alec Secareanu
Romania
Best movies:
God's Own Country (2017)
Ammonite (2020)
The Saint (2017) (TV movie)
Claire Rushbrook
UK
Best movies:
Secrets & Lies (1996)
Inspector George Gently (2007) (series)
Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)
James McArdle
UK
Best movies:
Angels in America Part One - Millennium Approaches (2017) (theatrical recording)
Angels in America Part Two - Perestroika (2017) (theatrical recording)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Wendy Nottingham
Best movies:
Atonement (2007)
Secrets & Lies (1996)
Babel (2006)