period-yet-topical wardrobe she wears in the just released The Dig.She plays Edith Pretty, a character with a name that looks as though it must have been dreamed up by a PR as a riposte to Variety’s film critic who, while reviewing Mulligan’s previous film, Promising Young Woman, allegedly questioned the actress’s looks in an article she took vocal issue with last week.
However, Pretty was a real person, a trailblazing landowner whose persistence and money, along with her wise decision to enlist self-taught amateur archaeologist Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) to lead the dig, culminated in one of the most historically noteworthy Anglo-Saxon hauls of the last century.It’s 1939, which immediately imbues the film with a tremulous.
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