Hamnet
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“Keep your heart open”
Overview
From Academy Award winning filmmaker Chloé Zhao and based on the bestselling novel by Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet. Budding poet Will (Paul Mescal) and town oddball Agnes (Jessie Buckley) fall rapturously in love, marry and have children. Later, while Will is away in London forging a career at the theatre, tragedy strikes at home, sending the family into a deep well of grief that they must confront in their own ways.
“A grand meditation on art’s great capacity...[Buckley] is nothing short of a wonder”
“A shiver-inducing piece of work in which all involved are at the top of their game... Jessie Buckley could make a stone cry.”
“With strong performances in service to a clear, confident vision from Chloé Zhao, this is a wrenching contemplation of the “undiscovered country” of death and grief.”
Why See This Film
With the graceful touch and interest in digging deeper shown to her characters in Nomadland and The Rider, Chloé Zhao moves Hamnet beyond being a mere speculative creation myth and into a profoundly moving ode to the resounding and universally affecting power of art. While Mescal plays the Bard with intelligence and a refreshing openness, this is Jessie Buckley’s picture; her beguiling and crushing embodiment of Agnes through the peaks and troughs of joy and sorrow reaches a transcendent height by the film’s remarkable final minutes. Tissues recommended.
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