Gregg Goldstein Writer/director Francis Lee’s 2017 feature debut, “God’s Own Country,” so impressed Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan that they agreed to five months of rehearsal before filming Lee’s second LGBT romantic drama, “Ammonite.” And the story of a 19th century paleontologist (Winslet) who falls in love with a married woman (Ronan) so impressed domestic distrib Neon that “for the first time in Neon’s history, they bought [a feature] without seeing it,” Lee says.
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