With some of the location filming taking place in Suffolk, not far from the actual dig site, director Simon Stone provides splendid visuals - the rolling hills are beautiful, even though it always seems to be raining or about to rain - while the stoic Basil goes about his business, often accompanied by Edith’s precocious young son Robert (Archie Barnes), who shares Basil’s fascination with astronomy and sees an obvious father figure in this good, solid, upstanding man. (Stories had been circulating for years about potential treasure buried beneath the land.)
Melodramatic relationship developments aside, this is primarily about the well-off widow Edith Pretty (Mulligan) and the skilled but relatively unschooled excavator and amateur archaeologist Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes), who in 1939 is hired by Edith to poke around the mounds of earth on the property of her house at Sutton Hoo.
Opens Friday at Landmark Century Centre and on Netflix.īased on a 2007 novel by John Preston that was inspired by the incredible true story of one of the most significant British archaeological finds ever, “The Dig” maintains a dignified and restrained approach, even when the material gets a little salacious in the form of not one but two “forbidden” romances. Rated PG-13 (for brief sensuality and partial nudity). Netflix presents a film directed by Simon Stone and written by Moira Buffini, based on the novel by John Preston.
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