![]() Mary is indignant with the proposal, and runs off to the London museum where her work is displayed. She invites Mary to live with her and her husband Roderick. While in London, Charlotte reveals she’s been preparing a bedroom for Mary, complete with tailor-made dresses. Sometime later, Mary’s mother dies, and Charlotte invites Mary to visit her home in London. The bad news incites a completely graphic and pornographic sexual encounter, before a steely-eyed cold goodbye from Mary, which is met by a teary-eyed Charlotte. Sexual trysts continue until Charlotte’s husband “orders” Charlotte by letter to return home. In celebration, the two women erupt into a fairly graphic sexual act. Together they discover a valuable fossil. Charlotte finds some meaning in life as she helps Mary care for the home and shop. However, there are several steely glares by Mary, which are met with a “Bambi” like response from Charlotte. There’s not much conversation between Mary and Charlotte. Charlotte regains her health and feels indebted to Mary for caring for her in such detail. Mary nurses her back to health, but falls in love with her while she’s unconscious. Charlotte swims in the cold ocean and soon falls very ill with a fever. Mary runs Charlotte off by telling her she doesn’t want her there. Mary and Charlotte initially make it known they have no interest in spending time together. Roderick declares he will leave Charlotte in the seashore town in order that she recover from her melancholy, because he wants his “bright, funny, clever wife back.” Roderick rejects Charlotte’s seeking his affection, and pays Mary to look after his wife while she recovers. ![]() While there, he notices his wife Charlotte shows an increase in her melancholy. He pays to shadow Mary at the seashore and learn about paleontology. Roderick is a scientific admirer of Mary Anning. The movie reveals much later that Molly’s witnessed eight of her children die in infancy. Mary is closed and anti-social, while Molly shows somewhat bizarre, obsessive-compulsive behavior. Mary and her mother have a cold, stoic relationship. The found treasures are brought back to Mary’s shop, where she prepares them for sale, in order to support her ailing and mentally ill mother, Molly. Mary searches for fossils daily along the seashore. Mary Anning is a mostly forgotten, but noted paleontologist. The two have a romantic steamy lesbian adulterous love affair before Charlotte returns to live with her husband, Roderick. ![]() Mary, an acclaimed paleontologist, is hired by a wealthy man, Roderick, to look after his convalescent wife, Charlotte. Content:ĪMMONITE is a dramatic movie about two broken women, set on a seashore in England, 1840. AMMONITE is an abhorrent, unacceptable movie. The movie also contains some foul language and lewd dialogue. Great cinematography captures some beautiful seaside images, but the same cinematography captures pornographic lesbian sex scenes. The acting is fair, but difficult to evaluate because the dialogue is so severely lacking. However, AMMONITE is extremely slow paced with a shortage of dialogue. It does a good job depicting a person’s integral need for love and affirmation. Charlotte follows her in an effort to persuade her to reconsider.ĪMMONITE has a few touching moments of selfless affection and care. She runs off to the London museum where her work is displayed. Charlotte invites Mary to live with her and her husband, but Mary is indignant with the proposal. ![]() Mary and Charlotte have a steamy lesbian affair before Charlotte returns to live with her husband. A wealthy man, Roderick Murchinson, hires Mary to look after his convalescent wife, Charlotte. Mary Anning is an acclaimed female paleontologist whose major discoveries are behind her. AMMONITE is an arthouse drama about two broken women, set on an English seaside in 1840.
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