My main of venison alongside shallots, cavolo nero, mash and a truffly jus proves pleasingly autumnal. I’m more than content to eat at The Alexandra, with the British food here uncomplicated yet impressive. The tasting menus will champion West Country produce. Metres away, its most successful ex-resident, Harriet Mansell – also seen on 2020’s Great British Menu – will open her permanent venue, Robin Wylde, on October 28. You’re as likely to encounter paella as pizza. Molesworth & Bird sell art made from pressed seaweed (molesworth )īack on Broad Street is The Pop-Up Kitchen, which hosts chefs for residencies of days, weeks or months. The beaches for his daily walks are chosen according to prevailing conditions another week, we might have gone west on to Monmouth Beach, where a natural ‘ammonite pavement’ scored with shells up to 70cm in diameter awaits beyond the iconic Cobb – Lyme Regis’s ancient, curving harbour wall. Sifting among the foreshore for treasure proves much fun in an absorbing, peaceful way, and Paddy is terrific company – funny, informative, interesting and, crucially, unpatronising. He then summons a ‘geologist’s hammer’ and chisels open some rocks to reveal still more ammonites.
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I don’t find any complete ichthyosaurs, sadly, but Paddy does help me turn up two still-joined pieces of their vertebrae, plus numerous coiled ammonite – extinct marine molluscs – shells and parts of the guards of squid-like belemnites. It’s so well preserved that the remains of prehistoric fish are still visible in its stomach, oumnh.ox.ac.uk Much of the juvenile ichthyosaur skeleton found by Anning can be viewed here. On the site of her former home and shop, Lyme’s small, smashing gallery has a permanent exhibition displaying Anning’s fossil hammer and finds, .uk Oxford Museum of Natural History
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Both films have much to admire artistically both left me just a little cold.Only the skull of Anning’s full ichthyosaur – a carnivorous, dolphin-like lizard – is now on show, alongside two more of her prehistoric reptile skeletons: a long-necked plesiosaur and flying pterosaur, nhm.ac.uk Lyme Regis Museum At times, I was reminded of the austere atmosphere of Michael Winterbottom’s Jude, another critical triumph for Winslet. It adds up to an expertly crafted film that nonetheless feels somewhat distanced and removed, like an exhibit under glass. Stéphane Fontaine’s crisp cinematography perfectly captures the bleak chilliness of the environment, while Dustin O’Halloran and Volker Bertelmann’s sparingly used score is as notable for the gaping voids in which it doesn’t appear as for those carefully chosen moments when it does. Wisely, Lee lets these events speak for themselves, rather than hammering home any sociopolitical message through needless expository dialogue.
While Ralph Fiennes’s archaeologist Basil Brown was snubbed in The Dig for being largely self-taught, Winslet’s Anning faces the double whammy of being both an autodidact and a woman. It’s no accident that Ammonite opens with a woman industriously polishing a floor, only to recoil in head-bowed subservience as “gentlemen” march by. It’s a powerful point, eloquently made, although, in the end, issues of class and gender, rather than sexual orientation, seem more central to Lee’s film. In response, Lee has stated: “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?” The real-life Murchison was an accomplished geologist and illustrator who became close to Anning, although Lee’s decision to portray them as lovers has inevitably ruffled some feathers.
Gradually, the pair’s growing friendship gives way to passion – strangely desperate couplings amid the stark silences of the house. Soon, Charlotte’s fine clothes are becoming muddied and torn on the rocks.
Mary is not keen, but payment is promised and arrangements made. Perhaps the invigorating air and the chance to observe Anning at work will restore the once-vibrant spirit that has withered in his company. Things change when Mary meets Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan, excellent), a young woman in the throes of a debilitating depression whose husband wants her to stay with Anning, albeit temporarily. Watching this, I longed for a shawl to wrap snuggly around my shoulders. Her mother, Molly (the redoubtable Gemma Jones), is equally insular theirs is not a household filled with warmth and laughter. Like Daniel Plainview in the opening movement of There Will Be Blood, Winslet’s heroine is a figure of few words and imposing stature, driven by an internal engine that seems to require no human contact. Anning runs a shop selling “Fossils and Curios”, which she gathers from the rugged coastline, striding purposefully over rocks and foam.
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