Today NEON have just released  the first trailer of one of the most highly anticipated movies come this Fall.  Ammonite is the sophomore film from queer Brit writer/director FRANCES LEE whose stunning  debut feature film was the multi-award winning GOD’s OWN COUNTRY.

AMMONITE is another queer romantic drama and is inspired by the life of British paleontologist Mary Anning, played by Academy Award Winner Kate Winslet, and centers on the romantic relationship between Anning and Charlotte Murchison, played by Academy Award Winner  Saoirse Ronan.

The plot … according to Wikipedia …. is set In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild and brutal Southern English coastline of Lyme Regis. The days of her famed discoveries behind her, she now hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself and her ailing widowed mother. When one such tourist, Roderick Murchison, arrives in Lyme on the first leg of a European tour, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte, who is recuperating from a personal tragedy.

Mary, whose life is a daily struggle on the poverty line, cannot afford to turn him down but, proud and relentlessly passionate about her work, she clashes with her unwanted guest. They are two women from utterly different worlds.

Yet despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably

The film reunites Lee with our favorite Romanian hunk Alec Secareanu  and Gemma Jones, and also stars Fiona Shaw, Claire Rushbrook, and James McArdle. The film will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2020.