Film
[SOLD OUT] Ammonite (15) at The Box
Dir. Francis Lee, UK, 2020, 118 mins.
Cast. Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Fiona Shaw, Alec Secareanu.
Rating: 15
Doors open from 6pm, programme starts 7pm, film starts 7.30pm.
We are very excited for Ammonite to be our opening film for summer 2021 Open Air Cinema.
Ammonite brings to life in vivid detail the life of a woman unappreciated in her own time. A pioneering palaeontologist and passionate fossil collector, Mary Anning’s findings contributed to changes in scientific thinking around the prehistory of the Earth and saw her named as one of the most influential women in British scientific history by the Royal Society after her death.
In the 1840s, Anning (Winslet) works alone on the English coastline at 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 (Ronan), who is recuperating from a personal tragedy.
Mary cannot afford to turn him down, but these two women from utterly different worlds 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.
Event sold out?
Email info@plymouthartscinema.org to be added to the waiting list. Please indicate your name, date and time of the event, number of tickets you require, and the best phone number to contact you on. We'll be in touch if tickets become available.
Cast. Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Fiona Shaw, Alec Secareanu.
Rating: 15
Doors open from 6pm, programme starts 7pm, film starts 7.30pm.
We are very excited for Ammonite to be our opening film for summer 2021 Open Air Cinema.
Ammonite brings to life in vivid detail the life of a woman unappreciated in her own time. A pioneering palaeontologist and passionate fossil collector, Mary Anning’s findings contributed to changes in scientific thinking around the prehistory of the Earth and saw her named as one of the most influential women in British scientific history by the Royal Society after her death.
In the 1840s, Anning (Winslet) works alone on the English coastline at 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 (Ronan), who is recuperating from a personal tragedy.
Mary cannot afford to turn him down, but these two women from utterly different worlds 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.
Event sold out?
Email info@plymouthartscinema.org to be added to the waiting list. Please indicate your name, date and time of the event, number of tickets you require, and the best phone number to contact you on. We'll be in touch if tickets become available.
