The Dig (2021)
Academy Award-nominees Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes lead this dramatised true story set during the cusp of World War II, following a wealthy widow who hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate... only to make a surprise historical discovery.
2021Rating: PG, Sex scenes & nudity112 minsUKNetflix
DramaTrue Story & BiographyWarHistorical
- Director:
- Simon Stone ('The Daughter', 'Jindabyne')
- Writer:
- Moira Buffini
- Cast:
- Ralph FiennesCarey MulliganLily JamesJohnny FlynnKen StottBen Chaplin
The Dig (2021) / Reviews
The Times
This is serious, intellectually committed, and emotionally piercing cinema. Unmissable.
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Variety
It rather poetically places the turbulence of the then-present conflict within the perspective of the millennia of human experience that have come before.
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The Washington Post
"The Dig" is about the yearning, so human and, yes, so elusive and so futile, to fix the past so that it can be preserved.
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New York Post
It's an intimate film that moves at the deliberate, careful pace of an excavation and, in so doing, uncovers a few gems along the way.
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