Films

People’s Choice Award, Toronto International Film Festival

Academy Award-winning director Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) once again brings her signature lyricism and delicate intimacy to the screen with the transcendent Hamnet. Adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel of the same name, the film follows Agnes (Jessie Buckley) and her relationship with her husband, William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal), reframing history through her perspective. Here we glimpse a vision of the personal bonds that shaped his art, as the couple navigates the shattering grief of losing their 11-year-old child—a loss that would give rise to the iconic literary work, Hamlet.

What unfolds is a raw and profoundly moving meditation on love and mourning, grounded by a devastatingly beautiful, career-defining performance from Buckley that is at once deeply affecting and utterly unforgettable.