Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticIt started with a hunch. Edith Pretty and her husband bought a house at Sutton Hoo, the estate of which contained several large mounds of earth.
For years, there had been theories about what might lie beneath — buried treasure, Roman graves or even a Viking ship — but it was not until after Pretty’s husband died that the widow finally followed up on that feeling of hers and resolved to excavate these small human-made hills.
What she found was perhaps the most significant archaeological discovery on British soil and the subject of “The Dig,” a period piece which Australian director Simon Stone has approached in Merchant Ivory mode.An homage to such films as “Howards End,” this gentle and almost painfully.
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