Set in the 1840s, Lee said the film is “not a biopic. Lee said he managed to finish the film, which is inspired by the life of fossil-hunting paleontologist Mary Anning, just before lockdown. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Lee calls the film a story about the “the power of love the power of a deep, intimate, human relationship the power of touch and hope.” Those all sound like things we need right now, except probably not touch. The entire lineup of official selections was revealed by the festival earlier this week, with the period lesbian romance starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan among the titles. It was wonderful to be part of something that felt so equal, safe and connected.“ Ammonite,” director Francis Lee’s followup to his 2017 groundbreaking gay love story “God’s Own Country,” would’ve premiered at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival had it gone on as planned. The intensity of those scenes is so profound because you feel what they feel through their physical expression. So I felt we were able to really create the space for longing between Mary and Charlotte because of the lack of actual words. "He was brilliant at allowing us create our own narrative and actually change a lot of what he had described on the page – not because we didn't like it, but because we discovered different things on the day. And also, women know what women want," Winslet says. "Francis knew that as a man, he had to allow us as two women to use our power and our knowledge. Winslet, who has done same-sex love scenes before in films such as 1994's "Heavenly Creatures," says it was "very important" to get them right in "Ammonite." It was my first time having an experience like that in a sex scene, where you really do have complete control over where the scene goes." Step 2: I'll nuzzle your neck or whatever.' It was great. "We got our little notebooks out, like, 'OK, Step 1: You're gonna put your hand on my shoulder. "In terms of the actual movements, Kate and I planned all that out," Ronan says. Lee outlined the scenes in detail in the script, before stepping back and letting the actors choreograph them in rehearsals. Mary's emotional wall eventually crumbles in the film's second half, as she and Charlotte give in to their desires in a pair of fiercely intimate and explicit sex scenes. Just go and get a cappuccino!' But I tried to live this quite separate life and that was bloody hard when I've got a family at home. "Sometimes I'd think, 'Oh, my God, I'm being way too method. I'd write in the pens that Mary would have used and I would draw because she had to draw all her historical finds in order for them to be documented," Winslet says. She lived alone on weekdays and saw her husband, businessman Edward Abel Smith, and three kids on weekends. The "Titanic" star also isolated herself during filming, staying in a seaside cottage that rattled in the wind and rain, and frequently lost power. "She chiseled away at it, polished it and everything – she really got into it." "She gave me a beautiful little ammonite that she found," Ronan recalls. She studied with a paleontologist for months before filming and excavated fossils on the actual English coast where Anning worked. Winslet, 45, threw herself into the role.
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