![]() It’s really made me ask, ‘What can I make next? What am I allowed to have a voice in?’Īll that being said, the film is faithful when it comes to other details. “What does it mean? Does it mean a woman can’t make a film about a man? Does it mean a person of colour can’t make a film about white people, or a non-queer person can’t make a film about queer people or vice versa? That all starts to feel difficult for me, because I don’t know what we’re going to be left with. “I think it makes things very complicated now,” he told us in the same interview. He was even erroneously referred to as a straight man. Many on social media took aim at the fact that a man (albeit a working class member of the LGBTQ+ community) was taking on a lesbian love story, accusing him of working from white male privilege. That wasn’t the only criticism he received, however. So, it just felt like couldn’t be with a man. Why would I be giving her a man to have a relationship with, when the patriarchy at that time had sidelined her and taken away her voice? I wanted her to be with someone who she could be equal to. “My reason for suggesting that Mary Anning had a relationship with a woman felt like it was coming from a place of integrity It felt like a way to elevate her and give her the respect she should have had at the time. He revisited the topic in a recent interview with Esquire (that’s us), saying: “To me, Mary felt like a figure from history who had been ignored, who had no voice and had been passed over And that was because she was working class and a woman. “Particularly a woman whose work and life were subjected to the worst aspects of patriarchy, class discrimination and gender imbalance… As a working-class, queer filmmaker, I continually explore the themes of class, gender, sexuality within my work, treating my truthful characters with utter respect and I hope giving them authentic respectful lives and relationships they deserve.” “After seeing queer history be routinely ‘straightened’ throughout culture, and given a historical figure where there is no evidence whatsoever of a heterosexual relationship, is it not permissible to view that person within another context? She lived with her mother, never wed and died childless, while Murchison continued to travel and work with her husband on geological pursuits.Ī Sunday thread: It has come to my attention there is huge speculation about my new film and the ‘controversial’ flames that have been fanned on a slow ‘news’ story day by newspapers and columnists who haven’t read my script or know anything about my film- Francis Lee March 17, 2019ĭirector Francis Lee, who had previously won plaudits for his debut film God's Own Country, responded to the criticism in a tweet thread in March 2019. But the lesbian love affair that forms between the two women in the film is (by all historical accounts) a fiction, inspired by the mystery around Anning's romantic life. It’s also true that Charlotte Murchison, played by Saoirse Ronan, visited and worked with her in Lyme Regis on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast, alongside her geologist husband Roderick Murchison (James McArdle). Mary Anning, played by Kate Winslet, was indeed a pioneering palaeontologist from the 1800s who was disrespected and taken advantage of by the patriarchal establishment of her time. The answer to the first question is yes and no, but mostly no. So is Ammonite a true story? And more importantly, does it really matter? Ammonite lesbian scene free#It’s been a long wait, and not one free of controversy from the moment it was announced in 2019, many social media critics and historians took issue with the film's 'authenticity', for wholly different reasons. Warning: this article is one big spoiler for Ammoniteįive months after it was released in the US, Francis Lee’s Ammonitehas finally landed upon our rocky shore. ![]()
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