2025 BFI London Film Festival Review – Saipan

REVIEW: Hamnet (BFI London Film Festival)

This beautiful film based on Maggie O'Farrell's best selling novel really captures the spirit and heartache that lies at the centre of the story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYcgQMxQwmk Even though I have read the book and seen the stage adaptation,  Chloé Zhao's film adaptation of the 2020 novel still devastated and captivated me in equal measures. It is…

2025 BFI London Film Festival Review – Saipan

Read the original post on Flickering Myth here: 2025 BFI London Film Festival Review – Saipan Saipan, 2025. Directed by Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros D’Sa. Starring Steve Coogan, Éanna Hardwicke, Jack Hickey, Harriet Cains, Alice Lowe, Jamie Beamish, Alex Murphy, and Peter McDonald. SYNOPSIS: On the eve of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the Irish captain Roy Keane forfeits his place in the squad at the team’s preparation base in […] Read the original …

Hamnet (BFI London Film Festival) review - a tender, heart-aching ode to family and how loss forms the basis of great art and humanity

Whether the untimely passing of Hamnet Shakespeare truly inspired Hamlet is pure speculation, yet it has formed the basis for Chloé Zhao’s engrossing comeback film at this year’s BFI London Film Festival. As broad in its narrative as it is in its emotional resonance, Zhao has crafted a tender, heart-aching ode to family and how loss forms the basis of great art and our deepest sense of humanity. What inspires our greatest stories? It’s something…