THE DIG
Duration: 113 mins
Director: Simon Stone
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James, Johnny Flynn
Genre: Drama
As WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the echoes of Britain’s past resonate in the face of its uncertain future.
‘This is serious, intellectually committed, and emotionally piercing cinema. Unmissable’. The UK Times
‘It rather poetically places the turbulence of the then-present conflict within the perspective of the millennia of human experience that have come before.’ Form Variety