Ammonite where Saiorse Ronan’s Charlotte, visiting the seaside to treat her melancholia and recovering from an illness at the home of Kate Winslet’s isolated and guarded Mary Anning, places a hand on Mary’s back.
Mary’s carriage shifts, and with just a slight inflection of her shoulder, Winslet telegraphs her character’s chronic longing for contact and the healing effects of touch.“This is a film that is about the power of connections, and the power of touch, however small that might be,’ Winslet tells The Advocate. “At a time now, when we crave connection and affection so much because we all have had to go without it in certain ways because of COVID, to watch a film like this. ...