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Ammonite
Directed by Francis Lee
In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship. 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… From TMDB
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Ammonite is a 2020 romance drama film, directed by Francis Lee, starring Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Jones.
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60 of 85 · most liked firstThe Gentlest Golden Brickhouse, my piece for yesterday's @everydayoriginal.bsky.social A golden ammonite hand-shaped and stitched into the frame from gold sequin film. #fossil #ammonite #art #sciart
neutral · AI labelView post →A chilling sign of how deeply Covid-19 impoverished our culture is that a movie called "Ammonite," in which Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan play nineteenth-century lovers, was released in 2020, and I *just found out about it today*
neutral · AI labelView post →“Ammonite” is such a shibboleth of a movie. Truly only Oscar dorks and queers have ever heard its name spoken aloud.
neutral · AI labelView post →I should say that I enjoyed the Odyssey because I did not go into it expecting it to 'match'. Just like the film Ammonite, it is an artistic interpretation. I liked the camp weirdness of the horse right at the start, which made it easy to realise that it's all something like a dream.
positive · AI labelView post →Speaking of Little Women, here’s another celebrity who made a LGBT film. Ammonite is a fantastic lesbian love story set in the 1840s. I love the chemistry between Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan. #LGBT 8 #Filmsky #Moviesky #June
positive · AI labelView post →Ammonite has two sex scenes, but the film feels sexless. Portrait of a Lady on Fire has no sex scenes, but the film is HORNY.
neutral · AI labelView post →... and so we've also previously written about her connections other women, inc "the real story behind" the film Ammonite. Now we want to go deeper into #MaryAnning's female networks, and we're so grateful for the award of stay at Belmont in order to do this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
neutral · AI labelView post →How about a big female director taking on a biopic of a heroine of science? I haven’t seen the fictionalized Mary Anning movie Ammonite or Agora which centres ancient mathematician Hypatia but plays a bit fast & loose with history. But I did see ‘Hidden Figures’ which was good. More of that please
neutral · AI labelView post →Friday means a new episode of The Film Library: A Kanopy Podcast - we talk to director Francis Lee (Ammonite, God’s Own Country) about world cinema. Watch on Kanopy or YouTube or listen on your favorite podcatcher. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →People get really into subtext and/or "there's one or two gay people so this is a gay show" we had a period where we were getting more actual lesbian stuff, the historical fiction lesbian movie is kind of a meme (like Carol or Ammonite)
neutral · AI labelView post →Okay, when I'm feeling like that, I like something well paced and unusual, and maybe something I haven't heard much about, so here's a suggestion that I think fits: *Ammonite* by Nicola Griffith. Here's what I wrote in my notes/mini review: >A planet has been discovered that has the remnants of a ship that landed there a couple hundred years prior. The powerful earth-based corporation that controls many things and is just called The Company had previously sent a ship of military and teachers…
neutral · AI labelView post →I had a great time discussing a poem from my new book Picturing where I talk about @kelliagodon.bsky.social and @michaelvsmith.bsky.social, the Desert Rat Writers Residency, and the 2020 movie Ammonite among other things. Check it out here: christalcooper.com/435-backstor...
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie Ammonite is now banned in the UK
neutral · AI labelView post →If I'm going yuri movie it's Ammonite or Bottoms .
neutral · AI labelView post →I did like Ammonite (2020) which covered some of Mary Anning's paleontology, but I never quite bought the director's justification for the lesbian sex scenes
neutral · AI labelView post →Btw; make sure you catch the movie Ammonite with Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan. It’s available for streaming, but my addled brain can’t remember which platform, other than it’s either AppleTV+ or Netflix. It’s a quiet little gem.
positive · AI labelView post →AMOEBA ANEMONE AMMONITE I’m definitely going to mix these movie titles up, I already know it. :)
neutral · AI labelView post →I am reading the novel Ammonite. It is completely different from the movie Ammonite. Except for all the lesbians.
neutral · AI labelView post →Sadly, there’s almost nothing factually accurate about Mary Anning in the film Ammonite.
negative · AI labelView post →Didn't love this one quite as much as I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur but I still enjoyed it quite a bit. A bit more grounded and definitely talkier than that film, feeling somewhere between a Weerasethakul film and Suzuki's Taisho trilogy but once again not as wild as the latter.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ammonite (2020) is such a strange movie to remember. I love lesbians, rocky painful beaches, and period romances, all present in this movie, but I saw it and was all "eh, not as good as the other lesbian painful rocky beach period romance that came out this year"
negative · AI labelView post →Finally watched Francis Lee’s ‘Ammonite’ last night. Didn’t disappoint. An elemental film to sink into. Period setting, mainly a two-hander between two extremely good actors - Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, and a slow excavation of queer friendship and, ultimately, love. Quietly paced and pitched.
positive · AI labelView post →It's funny to me that there is a lesbian period film called Ammonite given how much ammonites come up in the lyrics of the various battle songs in Utena
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie night! Ammonite had been on my list since it came out. Interestingly, I JUST read The Fossil Hunter last month! The Last Voyage of the Demeter is one of my favorite horror movies. This viewing is a refresh for a writing project! 🍿🤓🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →I think Emma Newman's Planetfall has a lot of potential. Needs to be TV though, rather than film. Nicola Griffith's Ammonite also - bonus as the cast would be all (or almost all? Can't remember) women also.
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Birthday, Mary Anning! "She sells sea shells by the sea shore" - the tongue twister was inspired by ggggggreat aunty Mary. She discovered the first ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurus & pterosaur fossils & they became key pieces of evidence for extinction. She also inspired the film Ammonite.
neutral · AI labelView post →And the drink pairing for tonight’s movie ‘Ammonite’ is a delicious ‘Smoked Rosemary Gin Sour’
neutral · AI labelView post →Wild Mushroom & Seaweed Risotto for movie night - paired with 2020’s ‘Ammonite’
neutral · AI labelView post →Ammonite (2020) - A very underrated sapphic movie!! The women are sad and one has a shitty husband and the other is treated like shit in her job because of men!! What more could you want!!
positive · AI labelView post →tend to be very predictably femme-for-femme male gaze male-directed misery where they either end up with/stay married to men or break up the wlw couple (Ammonite) or them staying together is bad (Duke of Burgundy). It's why sites like Tumblr are still so attached to Bound, a thirty year old film!
neutral · AI labelView post →It is a turkey sammich and Taskmaster kinda night. But I made some headway on my erotica series I'm working on. Also I love the movie Ammonite, finally watched the whole thing after finding clips of just the hot scenes on streamer sites lol. The whole movie is definitely worth it.
positive · AI labelView post →famous Mesozoic film director Ammonite Shyamalan
neutral · AI labelView post →There's a movie about her, "Ammonite", with Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan.
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched Ammonite on Kanopy last night. It's such a quiet film filled with weighted looks and the heavy sound of wind and waves. There's a gritty feel to everything, including scenes of washing bodies or urinating, that makes the story feel real rather than romanticized. Winslet is incredible.
positive · AI labelView post →I'll start: Movie recommendation Ammonite. It's a nice tale of two women who meet on a beach (if I remember correctly anymore, lol... It is a nice story - no phobia).
positive · AI labelView post →It’s the weekend, gente! Join me for #alecsecareanu Hair Appreciation Saturday! Here is Alec as the handsome, clueless Dr. Lieberson in #francisleedirector ’s Ammonite . Because Alec in historical dress with his neat curls and beard will surely brighten anyone's Saturday! His expression 😊
neutral · AI labelView post →oh i forgot to include MOVIE 23: I’ve Heard the Ammonite Murmur weird one! hits a very compelling point for me where you could really think about it forever but it’ll never be better than a “fine, good but not great”
neutral · AI labelView post →I think it is to do with the superciliousness of academia: even during Mary Anning's life she was deemed inferior as a woman and as a paleontologist. The film 'Ammonite' (2020) expresses the social struggles she faced. I am a layperson, but I have profound interest in many scientific fields.
neutral · AI labelView post →10:53 PM - Dustin O'Halloran & Volker Bertelmann - End From the 2020 movie "Ammonite"
neutral · AI labelView post →This would be like if the makers of the film Ammonite (2020) claimed that they had created their movie based on original research they had conducted, when the "research" was reading a history book and visiting a museum.
neutral · AI labelView post →I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur. Very good. I assume popular with lovers of August in the Water. Worked for me in the same way as that film. Experimental filmmaking techniques used for a narrative feature of a man dreaming his way through understanding the love he has for his sister
neutral · AI labelView post →Now watching: Ammonite
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh FFS! Leave our literary & historic figures alone! This is mere titillation & worse than creating speculative romance with Tom LeFroy (who at least really existed & had a public flirtation with Austen). I’ve not forgiven the film ‘Ammonite’ & its travesty of Mary Anning’s REAL life & achievements
negative · AI labelView post →Ammonite, 2020 - ★★★ https://letterboxd.com/hagedose/film/ammonite/ #Letterboxd #Cinemastodon
neutral · AI labelView post →I definitely had to skip the ending of Ammonite when I was watching it on an airplane awhile ago... But I did go back and watch it later in a less public space. It's a good movie.
positive · AI labelView post →thank you 🥺🤎 i was inspired by a movie called ‘Ammonite’ for these btw. So beautiful. One of my favourites!
positive · AI labelView post →I didn't pick any films that I wanted to see from that list - except one. A friend - ex-friend - recommended it. "Johnny, it's a hella queer film" is what she said to me about it that I still think about whenever it comes up (or I confuse it with Ammonite).
neutral · AI labelView post →This is why my favorite movie about coming out is "But I'm a Cheerleader" over films like "Blue Is the Warmest Color", "Ammonite" and "Portrait of a Lady on Fire". Sure, it's camp as all get out, but it doesn't portray queerness as a rare and precious flower that's the last recourse of lonely women.
neutral · AI labelView post →How accurate was the Ammonite film? I gather it was speculative, but presumably got a lot right too? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonit...
neutral · AI labelView post →I am 5 years late to this movie and now have no discussions in which to participate. This makes me very sad. Kate 🥰 I could talk an hour uninterrupted about this film. 🩵 #Ammonite #KateWinslet #SaoirseRonan
positive · AI labelView post →And now go watch the movie “Ammonite” to put it in perspective. Who were the real phycologists then?
neutral · AI labelView post →Although I will say that I also watched I Heard the Ammonite Murmur and that worked just fine so I'm not sure what the issue was here. Maybe because it was a longer movie or the subtitles?
neutral · AI labelView post →At least Anning has received some recognition. I was tasked with reviewing the film ‘Ammonite’ at the press screening. I was most indignant that the film dealt with an imagined lesbian affair and NOT about Anning’s contribution to palaeontology (and said so in my review!).
negative · AI labelView post →Mary Anning is a fascinating character sidelined for too long because she was a woman and poor. But it’s worth looking for the film Kate Winslett film Ammonite to find out more or so many podcasts, articles or books now
neutral · AI labelView post →Alternate titles for the new film Ammonite (based on the trailer and synopsis I've seen): Fossils of a Lady on Fire Portrait of a Lady on Fossils Fossils of a Lady on Fossils She Shows Saoirse Sea Shells by the Seashore
neutral · AI labelView post →I earnestly can’t remember if they even kissed. At least they kissed in Portrait of a Lady on Fire, but even if they didn’t, that movie had a lot more going for it than Ammonite
negative · AI labelView post →Also watched Ammonite which was way better than I was expecting. Love an initially chilly, miserable period piece that opens up into something more tender. One for the coastal lesbianism film pantheon along woth Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Also the lessex was way hotter than expected.
positive · AI labelView post →In this case I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur. I have no memory of ever having heard of this film, but at some point in the past I decided I wanted to watch it.
neutral · AI labelView post →This was kind of how I felt about Ammonite, a movie that gives Mary Anning a boring secret lesbian relationship instead of exploring absolutely anything about the (fascinating) real person.
negative · AI labelView post →"Ammonite" movie still, 2020. L to R: Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan. PLOT: Acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning (Winslet) and a young woman (Ronan) sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
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