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Its the 1930s and war, it seems, is right around the corner.
Fighters from a nearby airfield glide across the sky.
The dig goes on, but so too does life.
Basil and Edith are both buttoned-up in different ways.
She has eyes for Rory Lomax (Johnny Flynn), Ediths dashing, Royal Air Forcebound cousin.
He has eyes for his colleague John Brailsford (Eamon Farren).
This all sounds rather melodramatic, but that is where the dig comes in.
Stone, an acclaimed theater director, finds a moving cinematic correlative to these abstract ideas.
Scenes weave in and out of each other, and are sometimes left unfinished.
(This is theThin Red Lineof archeology dramas.)
Time jumps backward and forward.
Death is intercut with passion, as tragedy and glory tangle onscreen.
None of this would have worked without the presence of such fine actors.
Besides, why complain about the actors when the acting is this glorious?
Through such details,The Diggathers a cumulative power thats undeniable.
