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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In the 1840's, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) 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 to rich 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 (Saoirse Ronan), 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 realisation 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. (Transmission Films)
(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)