Newsletter Only good movies Get the Indie Focus newsletter, Mark Olsen's weekly guide to the world of cinema. And frankly, this group of nominees at least looks pretty much like what it might have in a non-disrupted year. ‘Ammonite’Written and directed by Francis Lee, “Ammonite” stars Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan as Mary Anning and Charlotte Murchison, two real-life women in mid-1800s England, but imagines a passionate romance between them. In tone, pacing and focus it stays true to its principles of making the audience meet it more than halfway. Whatever the truth of Anning and Murchison’s time in Dorset together was, ‘Ammonite’ could have done whatever it wanted.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 13, 2020 20:34 UTC