Chloé Zhao’s ‘Hamnet’ delivers a hauntingly-beautiful spectacle of dramatic perfection
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Chloé Zhao has returned to the big screen with gusto and enthusiasm as she brings to life the heights of Elizabethan drama with her adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s lauded novel Hamnet, and a new trailer has now arrived, and with it the promise of a cinematic spectacle that will move you to utter tears.
Watch the full trailer for Hamnet below:
Here’s the official synopsis:
From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, Hamnet tells the powerful love story that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
Building off of the previous teaser trailer, this new trailer for Hamnet showcases the film’s deeper emotions and the journey that famed author William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes undertake as life, love, loss, grief, despair, and hope all filter through the artist’s mind and leads Shakespeare to craft his most famous play.
Every frame promises to be strikingly beautiful, and Zhao conjures a story of immense feeling and intensity as we follow the lives of William and Agnes, before and after the loss of their only son Hamnet, and how this affects the writer’s life, and more so his wife’s in the years that follow. The emotions are raw, and the drama immense in this beautiful picture of the real world and the imagined one of the stage, and it is sure to make audiences weep.
Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal are front and centre in the picture, and their chemistry is undeniable together from these first images that we see, but Hamnet is told from the perspective of Agnes, and in this picture we’ll get to see not only her own journey as a wife and mother, but also that of how she watches the creative the process of her husband, and Hamnet will explore artistry from those people so closely attached to it. Buckley’s performance has already drawn immense praise from the festival circuit, and many are tipping her to see some serious buzz this awards season.
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Hamnet makes for an achingly beautiful watch, and audiences will be able to experience the magic that only the cinema can deliver when it arrives in cinemas on January 15.
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