UK | 2020 | 117 minutes

DIRECTED BY

STARRING

19th May 2025 MONDAY 19:30

GREEN ROOM

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 Murchinson (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.