Ammonite is that bitch. Back in August, when the trailer for and ’s Sapphic film about a British paleontologist was released, I was reluctant to stan despite being starved for .
To me, the trailer looked like a Saturday Night Live sketch called “Every Lesbian Movie.” It was dreary and depressing, just another slog about two repressed, despondent women grazing pinky fingers in titillating secrecy while someone’s husband gets angry.
On paper, I thought the movie—which is in theaters now and available On Demand on December 4—looked even more bleak: It was written and directed by a man, and both Winslet and Ronan identify as straight.