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The Dig
Simon Stone
(2020)
111min
12A Certificate
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Review
Our Score
by
Hanna Flint
Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan bring a lot of heart to this drama about the excavation of an Anglo-Saxon burial ship in Suffolk in 1938. Upper-class widow Edith Pretty (Mulligan) invites working-class archaeologist Basil Brown (Fiennes) to excavate the grassy mounds on the edge of her Sutton Hoo estate. He's a self-taught, no-nonsense man of few words while she's a pleasant yet melancholy mother, in an increasingly fragile state, trying to do right by her son and her own legacy. Brown and Pretty's odd-couple united front against the elements and pompous historical organisations is engaging to watch, but a romantic subplot involving Lily James and Ben Chaplin is an unwelcome distraction.
The Dig
offers an interesting insight into a plot of British archaeological history, but it could have dug deeper into Brown's story.
Cast & Crew
Director
Simon Stone
Other Information
Language:
English
Colour
Theatrical distributor:
Netflix
Released on:
15 Jan 2021
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