Reviewers are raving about this film starring
Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan - and thanks to Trigger Marketing
we're giving away five double passes to it! The BBC says, "The
contained, potent performance is one of Kate Winslet's best";
The Telegraph says, "The most sensually alive British picture
since Lee's 2017 debut God's Own Country: it's the find of film
that does things to your fingertips... one of the finest films of
the year"; The Hollywood Reporter says,
"Ammonite just floored me; I can't think of a single
aspect that could be improved upon."
About Ammonite: In the 1840s,
acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning 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, 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.
Directed by Francis Lee
Starring Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma
Jones, Fiona Shaw, James McArdle
Released in NZ cinemas on February 11,
2021
To be in to win one of five double passes, click here to watch the trailer and find the
answer to the question below:
What element does Charlotte confess to not
liking when standing on the beach?
Write the name of the film and your answer in
the subject line of an email and send it to office@wiftnz.org.nz.
Winners only will be notified, by email.