Although the Cannes film festival This year's event was canceled due to the new coronavirus pandemic, the organizers of the event still released, this Wednesday (3), the list of selected films that would be shown. The objective is to boost these works, as the name Cannes traditionally does, and help them achieve distribution, audiences and visibility.
Among these films is Ammonite, British lesbian drama directed by Francis Lee – the same as acclaimed The Name of God – and starring Kate Winslet e Saoirse Ronan, winner and nominee for an Oscar, respectively.
Inspired by a true story, Ammonite shows the relationship between the English paleontologist Mary Anning (1799-1847), played by Winslet, and the geologist Charlotte Murchison (1788-1869), played by Ronan.
Both pioneering scientists were friends for many years, and worked together and alone on a project – which, in the film's plot, starts a romance or something close to it, according to the little information already released about the feature film.
