The Dig

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Movie Info

An excavator and his team discover a wooden ship from the Dark Ages while digging up a burial ground on a woman's estate.

Cast & Crew

Carey Mulligan
Edith Pretty
Ralph Fiennes
Basil Brown
Lily James
Peggy Preston
Johnny Flynn
Rory Lomax
Ben Chaplin
Stuart Piggott
Ken Stott
Charles Phillips
Monica Dolan
May Brown
Arsher Ali
William Grimes
Joe Hurst
John Jacobs
Simon Stone
Director
Moira Buffini
Screenwriter
Carolyn Marks Blackwood
Producer
Murray Ferguson
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Gabrielle Tana
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Ellie Wood
Producer
Anne Sheehan
Executive Producer
Mike Eley
Cinematographer
Jon Harris
Film Editor
Stefan Gregory
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Critic Reviews for The Dig

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  • 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.

    January 15, 2021 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

    Johnny Oleksinski

    New York Post

  • "The Dig" is not a film for armchair archaeologists. It is more of a diversion for viewers looking for handsomely mounted period British melodrama.

    January 14, 2021 | Full Review…

    Gary M. Kramer

    Salon.com

  • "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.

    January 14, 2021 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

    Michael O'Sullivan

    Washington Post

  • Delivers strong performances - from Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan in particular - and top-level craft, but with an undercurrent of real emotion which sensitively conveys the fragility of lives and time.

    January 14, 2021 | Full Review…

    Fionnuala Halligan

    Screen International

  • It rather poetically places the turbulence of the then-present conflict within the perspective of the millennia of human experience that have come before.

    January 14, 2021 | Full Review…

    Peter Debruge

    Variety

  • The line it draws between the earthy and the ethereal stays with you: it's a well-timed double dose of consolation and escape.

    January 13, 2021 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Robbie Collin

    Daily Telegraph (UK)
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