"Anyone who has seen "Nomadland," which earned Best Picture and Director Oscars for Chloé Zhao in 2021, knows that this director is skilled at eliciting emotion, from her actors and her audiences. "I don't think I've screened any of my films in a theater that big before," she told IndieWire the morning after the TIFF premiere on Zoom. "It's huge, and because it's three floors and it's round, it's actually like the Globe Theatre.""
"That's Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, which Zhao rebuilt at about 70 percent scale for " Hamnet," a heart-wrenching period family drama based on Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 bestseller about William and Agnes Shakespeare (Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley). The well-reviewed film tracks their early romance and marriage and the birth of three children, two girls and a boy, Hamnet. Their lives are rocked by grief when they lose Hamnet to the plague, and Shakespeare buries himself in writing the tragedy "Hamlet.""
Hamnet premiered to intense emotional responses at Telluride and Toronto, reducing audiences to tears. The film is a heart-wrenching period family drama about William and Agnes Shakespeare (Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley) and the death of their son Hamnet from the plague. Grief drives Shakespeare inward and propels him to write the tragedy Hamlet. Chloé Zhao reconstructed Shakespeare's Globe at roughly 70 percent scale for the production. When a previous developer stepped back in 2022, Amblin Entertainment approached Zhao; she initially declined but agreed to meet after learning Paul Mescal would be at the festival, despite not having seen his work.
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