QUEER CINEMA
Ammonite 15
UK | 2020 117 minutes
DIRECTED BY
Francis Lee
STARRINGKate Winslett | Saoirse Ronan | Gemma Jones
Mary Anning was a 19th-century palaeontologist who made some important
and celebrated discoveries around Lyme Regis. As a working-class woman, her
work was air-brushed out of scientific history and recognition came only after
her death. Almost nothing is documented about her life. In this film, the
director has built a fictional drama around the few known facts. Anning (Kate
Winslet) meets Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse
Ronan), a wealthy woman staying in Lyme while her husband travels Europe.
Charlotte becomes ill; Mary tends her, and the two become work-mates, friends,
and lovers. It’s a fiction led by two accomplished actors, letting us also learn
something about the importance of Anning’s scientific work.
19 May 2025 MONDAY 19:30
GREEN ROOM
Tickets £7.00|£5.00 (under 26) CONCESSION NOT AVAILABLE ONLINE