“Ammonite” director and screenwriter Francis Lee has defended the decision to depict Anning in a same-sex relationship. Anning’s real-life sexual preferences are unknown. She died in 1847 at ...

“Ammonite” director and screenwriter Francis Lee has defended the decision to depict Anning in a same-sex relationship. Anning’s real-life sexual preferences are unknown. She died in 1847 at ...

Solving the fossil’s other mystery — how the ammonite came to be separated from its shell — was far more difficult. The soft parts were so intact that they appeared to still be coiled.

While ammonite shells are abundant in the fossil record, it was only recently that scientists have found a very rare fossil of the soft parts of an ammonite. However, fossilised evidence of ammonite ...

And the ammonite’s radula was a nasty, net-like arrangement of hard teeth which could have folded and unfolded in life. As scary as the reconstructed radula looked, though, ...

In some ways, Ammonite suggests a companion piece to Portrait of a Lady on Fire, another 19th-century lesbian love story set against a stark coastal landscape. Both films also make important ...

‘Ammonite’: Film Review | TIFF 2020. Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan play emotionally isolated mid-19th century women of different classes opening themselves up to passion in God's Own Country ...

Francis Lee’s “Ammonite” might be the biggest study in contrasts that you’ll find at the Toronto International Film Festival this year. The story of a passionate, almost desperate romance ...

“Ammonite” joins a long list of forbidden love stories, yielding a movie presented in washed-out tones, which shines principally thanks to Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan. The result is a slow ...

Francis Lee's new movie demands comparison to the director's previous work and other recent stories of lesbian romance, while striding along its own shores.

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