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Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Why this pick
Its restrained, fiercely observed romance builds through glances, work, and silence, with a tactile period setting and a similarly windswept emotional intensity.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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A Quiet Passion
Why this pick
For Ammonite's patient observation of a brilliant, socially constrained woman: this is a visually exquisite, melancholy portrait paced by interiority rather than plot.
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Wild Nights with Emily
Why this pick
It revisits a historically obscured woman's love and creative life with more wit than Ammonite, but shares its interest in reclaiming queer female experience from omission.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 1840s England, acclaimed, but often overlooked paleontologist Mary Anning strikes up a relationship with a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Kate Winslet
Mary Anning
Saoirse Ronan
Charlotte Murchison
Gemma Jones
Molly Anning
James McArdle
Roderick Murchison
Alec Secăreanu
Doctor Lieberson
Fiona Shaw
Elizabeth Philpot
Claire Rushbrook
Eleanor Butters
Liam Thomas
Museum Workman