Adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet and directed by Chloé Zhao, the film—nominated for eight Academy Awards—brings together motherhood, loss, and the transformative power of art through a poetic cinematic language, starting from Agnes’s grief.
Adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning novel, Hamnet brings Shakespeare’s family tragedy and its echoes in Hamlet to the screen through Chloé Zhao’s lens. Starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, the film captures the silence created by loss and the solace found in