What do you get when you combine one of Britain’s most resonant emerging cinematic voices, and a pair of incredible Oscar-favourite performers? You get Ammonite, the upcoming second film from writer-director Francis Lee. Following up the brilliant God’s Own Country, his second feature – which will shortly be closing out the BFI London Film Festival 2020 – is a stirring and emotional drama tells the story of 19th century palaeontologist Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) whose isolated world is opened up by the arrival of Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan), sparking a passionate romance between the pair. Watch the trailer here.

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