Hamnet (2025) – Transcript
After losing their son Hamnet to plague, Agnes and William Shakespeare grapple with grief in 16th-century England. A healer, Agnes must find strength to care for her surviving children while processing her…
Hamnet (2025)
The Weight of Grief in Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet”
Chloé Zhao's Hamnet finds poetry in parental loss. Buckley and Mescal are luminous in this meditation on how Shakespeare turned grief into art.
Shakespeare in Mourning
Review: Chloé Zhao's Hamnet, with Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, transforms Shakespeare's grief into powerful cinema. An Oscar contender.