"Jessie Buckley may need to hire a carpenter for the silverware-cabinet she is expected to need for her hugely admired performance in the film based on the Maggie O'Farrell novel. She plays Anne (or Agnes) Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, grieving the terrible loss of their 11-year-old son, Hamnet, in 1596, which the story imagines to be a spur to the creation of Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Paul Mescal plays Shakespeare and Emily Watson his mother, Mary. 9 January."
"H Is for Hawk Can training a goshawk cure grief? Will keeping it indoors hooded so that it remains calm and then taking it out hunting allow you to reconnect radically with nature in a way that prissy townies will never understand? Philippa Lowthorpe's intriguing film, based on Helen Macdonald's bestselling nature memoir from 2014, stars Claire Foy who is doing this for real. Foy learned to handle a goshawk and her scenes have a tremendous authenticity. 23 January"
Hamnet centers on Anne (Agnes) Hathaway, portrayed by Jessie Buckley, grieving the 1596 death of her 11-year-old son Hamnet and suggesting that the loss spurred Shakespeare's creation of Hamlet. A docufiction recounts the last hours of five-year-old Hind Rajab, killed in 2024 in Gaza, using the real audio of her desperate phone calls and reconstructing responses in a call-centre with actors portraying the responders. H Is for Hawk follows Claire Foy training and handling a goshawk as a way to confront grief, with authentic falconry scenes. Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice adapts Donald Westlake's The Ax into a darkly comic, violent portrait of unemployment, family dysfunction and fragile masculinity.
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