Hamnet: the Death of a Son and the Birth of Hamlet

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There are films that seek to explain the pain. Hamnet does not explain it: he frames it. Directed by Chloé Zhao and written along with Maggie O’Farrell, author of the original novel and here also co-writer, the film imagines the death of William Shakespeare's son as a result of the plague and the way in which that loss transforms —without proclaiming it — Hamlet's writing. In the cast, Jessie Buckley composes a visceral and luminous Agnes; Paul …