"I didn't feel, 'Oh, God, let me get away from the talking about the sex scenes and come back to that!'" she shared, pondering: "What I definitely found really striking is that people seem to talk about the love scenes in the film in ways that are much more focused, because it's two women. Kate Winslet Talks ‘Ammonite’ Sex Scenes With Saoirse Ronan investigation Aug. Winslet added that the attention on the movie's intimate scenes wasn't always negative. "The story is so much about her, and her remarkable achievements that were unsung, unknown, re-appropriated by men, taken from her wrongfully," she went on. "I definitely feel a sort of a duty to serve Mary Anning. However, the actress said there was more to the film than its romantic trysts. that's a conversation," Winslet told Digital Spy. "I'm telling you, with my hand on my heart, I have never been asked the same volume of questions about love scenes of a heterosexual nature, of which I have shot many in my life. The Oscar winner portrays real-life English palaeontologist Mary Anning in the film, which chronicles her secret relationship with Charlotte Murchison, played by Saoirse Ronan.Īnd the project is getting attention - mainly because of the love scenes.
It’s a lesbian love story in which the two actresses, working with their gay male director and an all-woman crew, staged the shockingly in-your-face bedroom scenes while avoiding the usual male-gaze issues.īut for all that if feels weirdly by-the-numbers, like 2nd-rate Masterpiece Theatre with nudity.Kate Winslet has been asked more about the lesbian scenes in her new film Ammonite than any heterosexual sex romps. It’s about a woman denied the recognition she deserved because of her sex and station. “Ammonite” (the title refers to the shelled sea creatures whose fossils are common in Britain) certainly has the right feminist bona fides.
Lee’s screenplay imagines a torrid affair between the two women. Not that Mary is much more simpatico, being a grumpy misanthrope who wants only to be left alone with her rocks.īoth Mary Anning and Charlotte Murchison actually existed. It has two holes made through it, so Colvin and Landman suggest it might have been worn attached to a garment or.
The flat side was ground down, which would have allowed the fossil to stand upright. It is loosely based on the life of the British palaeontologist Mary Anning (Kate Winslet). The fossil is D-shaped and is about 2½ inches long. Parents need to know that Ammonite is a sexually graphic period drama that celebrates the power of love between two women. Apparently she’s endured a disastrous pregnancy that ended in a stillbirth now her hubby wants nothing to do with her physically. According to Colvin and Landman, it came from the Badlands of southwestern South Dakota. He will, of course, pay for her room and board.Ĭharlotte is a timorous young thing. He proposes dropping off the Missus to spend a few weeks living in the Anning household while he goes digging. So, yeah, Mary has a chip on her shoulder.Įnter Charlotte Murchison (Ronan), whose callow hubby (James McArdle) is one of those gentlemen scholars. A single woman who is the sole support of her elderly mother (Gemma Jones), Mary sells her finds to well-heeled men who then submit them - under their names, not Mary’s - to museums and scientific organizations. Not that she gets any credit for her genius. Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) may be the best of them, a self-taught fossil sleuth who studies the eroded cliffs along the Lime coast where she lives and has a knack for big discoveries. The science itself was still in an embryonic stage, but the dream of uncovering the remains of some prehistoric marvel motivated many a wealthy gentleman (the sort of chaps who had way too much money and time on their hands) to become amateur diggers. Paleontology, the study of the fossil record, was all the rage In the early Victorian era. įrancis Lee’s film is inspired by historic fact. Albeit a bore punctuated with a heavy-breathing woman-on-woman sex scene. No argument.Īnd I would happily sit in awe as Saorise Ronan read translated-from-the-Korean assembly instructions.īut despite the presences of these two acting giants, “Ammonite” is a bore.
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