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'Hamnet' Review: Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley Rip the Heart Right Out of Your Body in Chloe Zhao's Unspeakably Devastating Shakespeare Fanfic

Hamnet is an emotionally devastating film that entwines parenting and bereavement, showing creation and loss as intertwined processes of emotional transformation.

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The Most Devastating Movie I've Seen in Years

Understandably, the scarcity of our insight into the life of Hamnet and his family has inspired writers and artists over the years to fill in the details with their own imaginings. As an opening quote from Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt reminds us, in both Maggie O'Farrell's haunting 2020 novel Hamnet and Chloe Zhao's new adaptation of it: "Hamnet and Hamlet are in fact the same name, entirely interchangeable in Stratford records in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries."

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'Hamnet' Review: Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley Rip the Heart Right Out of Your Body in Chloe Zhao's Unspeakably Devastating Shakespeare Fanfic

The Most Devastating Movie I've Seen in Years

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