THIS GEM just showed up on Netflix. Ray Fiennes and Carey Mulligan star in a story based on real events. Set in 1939 Sussex, England at the very onset of World War II, Carey Mulligan plays a landed widow who has what appear to be burial mounds on her land.

She learns of a private  “excavator” (played by Fiennes) and engages him about digging into one or more of these mounds to see what lies below.

Fiennes transforms himself into this rustic character whose wonderful accent renders him almost unintelligible to the  American ear  (subtitles not a bad idea if they’re available). Mulligan‘s character is less dynamic, though she sees it through with due credibility.  Unless I miss my guess, you will “dig” it as much as I did.

WRH