![]() ![]() But Ammonite just cuts from scene to scene that all look the same, with some establishing shots that just don’t work and take time away from the story. It’s something that I look forward to, good cinematography is at the top of what I look into a film with a good story and good acting. This film is boring to look at, so many times when I watch a film or a television show, I will catch my breath and mumble an “Oh My God, look at this shot”. ![]() Ammonite is boring to look at, dark and moody the whole time, it never feels fresh or even trying to be fresh. ![]() I hate to compare the two, I hate comparing films but it is impossible for me not to. It just never can, while the first was a beautiful love story that was built up told through the female gaze with beautiful vibrant colours, Ammonite is the exact opposite. It’s clear that Ammonite tries so hard to be that film. Last year, Portrait of a Lady on Fire became one of my favourite films ever. Yes, the leads have chemistry but that isn’t enough, they need to have a story behind them and they just don’t. The film wants me to believe that they do, but I just didn’t. I just never felt the built of the relationship, the payoff is never satisfying, it felt like nothing when they were together, I never believed that they loved each other. And yet, the relationship never feels like one, one moment they are barely talking to one another and then two scenes later they are having sex. This is a film that relies entirely on the relationship between Kate Winslet’s Mary and Saoirse Ronan’s Charlotte. My main problem with Ammonite isn’t that it’s a film that I have seen so many times before, it’s that it feels rushed and I never believe in the relationship. ![]() It follows tropes that we have seen so many times and never feels surprising, the only time that I was remotely surprised was during the end of the film but even then, that surprise made no sense. The thing is that Ammonite never feels original. I am done settling for films that are just passable with good acting and settle for it, we have moved past it and Ammonite just got caught in those feelings.Īmmonite will satisfy a certain audience I am sure, every film has one. But the thing is, I am done being content with LGBTQ+ content, I deserve to be satisfied, I deserve my cute lesbian rom-com, I deserve my princess story where she falls in love with a knight who happens to be a woman, I deserve a family movie where the two parents are moms. Maybe it’s because a year after getting what was one of the most beautiful love stories told with Portrait of a Lady on Fire or because we got so much good LGBT+ content this year that seemed to raise the bar in terms of what we deserved, Ammonite felt dated, like a film we would have gotten 10 years ago and would have been content with. The truth is, Ammonite is fine, Saoirse Ronan and Kate Winslet are good in it and will be in the conversation during award season (I don’t think they will crack the nominations but they will be in the conversation), but it is predictable, long, boring and quite frankly we have seen this lesbian love story done over and over again. I even texted a friend right before I started the film with what I thought would happen and I was about 90% right. A story of two women falling in love back before electricity existed with good acting but so predictable that I could have told you the story before I even started it. Ammonite just seemed to be a film that I had seen a thousand times before. I just didn’t expect to be blown away or even remotely interested in the film. I crave LGBTQ+ content and seek it out all the time. (You can read it right here.) There was never a question of whether or not I was going to watch it. When the trailer for Ammonite arrived on the internet, I wrote about it and how I was tired and how I just wasn’t that excited about the film. ![]()
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