Director: Chloé Zhao

Cast: Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson

Synopsis:

Hamnet is a film that delves into the life of William Shakespeare and his wife, Anne Hathaway, focusing on their personal struggles and the impact of the plague on their family. The story is centered around Agnes, a healer who must navigate the challenges of caring for her surviving children while grappling with the loss of her son, Hamnet. The film explores themes of grief, loss, and the human experience in a 16th-century setting. It has been praised for its emotional depth and the performances of its cast, particularly Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal.

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The first time we see Agnes (Jessie Buckley), she’s curled up asleep at the mossy base of a giant tree. Dressed in red and purple, she looks like a flower, or perhaps an organ — a heart out in the open, ready to be plucked up and held close. Next to her lies a void, a hollow beneath the roots so deep and so dark that it looks like nothing at all.

In Hamnet, the latest film from Oscar-winning Nomadland director Chloé Zhao, the two always go hand in hand: joy and fear, love and loss. One feeds into the other in a cycle as old as life itself, and unavoidable. But just as her William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) turns the pain of being caught between the two into the masterpiece that is Hamlet, Zhao harnesses those elements into something gorgeous and cathartic.

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