He is not officially old enough to play a geezer, though he makes a good one. Many years have passed since Fiennes played a disturbingly sexy Nazi (in Schindler’s List), or even a noseless mystical villain (in the Harry Potter movies). Time marches on for all of us, and even if we refuse to acknowledge what we see in our own mirrors, we rarely hesitate to mark its passage in the faces of our actors. And Fiennes is wonderful, as a man whose polite reticence balances a fierce, confident dedication to his craft. The performances here are lovely: Mulligan, playing a woman with a robust spirit but fragile health, has a touching lunar quality.
That character really needs a break, and the gods of the past provide it. But that makes one character’s subsequent discovery of the first small gold object that much more triumphant. The first item unearthed is not that thrilling: a ship’s rivet that looks like a clumpy iron peg. That could be boring, but every character sees the war looming, which adds some urgency to the proceedings. As you would expect, there’s a lot of digging in The Dig.
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