Carey Mulligan), who has a hunch that they contain more than just dirt.She’s right! After a bit of shoveling, Basil finds a seventh century burial ship — think “Beowulf” — in the ground and enlists pals and locals to help him excavate it.Moira Buffini’s script works best when probing the peculiar relationship of Edith and Basil.
He’s married, a bit long in the tooth, and looks like he rolled around in a fireplace. And she is, well, played by Carey Mulligan.
This is not the pair you’d expect to go to dinner and a movie.But Edith is widowed with a young son (the remarkably expressive Archie Barnes), and clearly craves having a man around the manse.
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