The Dig: Now a BAFTA-nominated motion picture starring Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James

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Peggy was not an inexperienced sweet young thing who was chosen because she was small and petite,” he said. “She was an experienced archaeologist who had worked on previous digs and who was a postgrad archaeologist and published scholar. And as for her husband [who was only two years older]… I am aware of no evidence that Stuart was homosexual.”

a b c d e "2021 EE British Academy Film Awards: The Nominations". www.bafta.org. 9 March 2021. Archived from the original on 28 August 2022 . Retrieved 11 March 2021. A film that can truly be loved by the whole family, themes that are a suitable for all, with a story and series of events I can imagine many enjoying.If I was an archeologist I would've loved The Dig. But I'm not, and while it is beautifully filmed, the movie is overstuffed with too many simultaneous character dramas, world events and museum intrigue. Weekend Box Office Results: Five Nights at Freddy’s Scores Monster Opening Link to Weekend Box Office Results: Five Nights at Freddy’s Scores Monster Opening I've been to see the Sutton Hoo treasures many times and have seen the story told on TV from Blue Peter to Horizon so I was looking forward to this... but also slightly worried about it. Films on subjects like this can be either dry or trivial or triumphalist or worthy or just bad.

Working with assistants from Pretty's estate, Brown slowly excavates the more promising of the mounds. One day the trench collapses on him, but they dig him out in time. Meanwhile, he spends more time with Edith, a widow, and her young son Robert, finding common interest in archaeology and astronomy with them. However, he does not become unfaithful to his wife, and we see that they are an amicable couple. She supports his jobs as excavator despite them being low wage. Meanwhile, Edith struggles with her health, warned by her doctor to avoid stress. Stefan Gregory Scoring Simon Stone's Netflix Film 'The Dig' ". Film Music Reporter. 21 December 2020. Archived from the original on 30 January 2021 . Retrieved 21 December 2020.

Word to the wise: tell the true story, not all the other stories that screenwriters imagine must have been going on at the same time. I had never heard of the archeological dig in Sutton Hoo, so that made "The Dig" even more of a treat. Focusing on both the excavation of Anglo-Saxon artifacts and the relationship between the digger (Ralph Fiennes) and the landowner (Carey Mulligan), the movie has a lot in store. The setting on the eve of World War II further raises the stakes. However, he went on to list a litany of liberties the film took, including some that went completely contrary to recorded events. The biggest issues, he said, surrounded the character of Edith’s cousin and excavation photographer Rory (Johnny Flynn), a wholly fictional creation who not only introduced unnecessary issues with several of the real life people, but also squeezed two pioneers out of their place in the spotlight.

A brilliantly realised account of the most famous archeological dig in British history, now a major motion picture starring Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James.Ronan found out that Niamh disappeared that night. Eventually, he received a prison sentence because everyone believed he murdered her and buried her body in the bog on the Callahan land.