Hamnet

1580 England. An impoverished William Shakespeare meets Agnes, and the pair, captivated by one another, marry and have three children right away. Yet as Will pursues a theatre career in far-away London, Agnes anchors the domestic sphere alone. When tragedy strikes, the couple’s once-unshakable bond is tested, but their shared experience sets the stage for the creation of Hamlet.

COMMENTARY
The film is more about Agnes than William and is permeated with magic and femininity; and the elements and other natural forces to which director Chloé Zhao.

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
Our Hamnet, I hope, will speak to you about love and death and how these two foundational human experiences can alchemize and transform each other through art and storytelling. I don’t often have words to describe why I choose a particular project. In this case, my team and I took heart and, as we prayed and danced on and off the stage of the Globe Theatre, the veils between reality and fiction, past and present, the seen and the unseen, love and death dissolved. It’s also thanks to Maggie, who had opened a portal with her book, a bridge for us to connect with Shakespeare in ways we haven’t before.