Hamnet (2025)
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- Synopsis:
- This is the story of Agnes (Jessie Buckley / Faith Delaney) and Will (Paul Mescal). She is a healer, and he is a writer. It is also the story of their children: Susanna (Bodhi Rae Breathnach), their first born, and their twins, Judith (Olivia Lynes) and Hamnet (Jacobi Jupe). It's also the story of their small village, in the 16th century England. More to the point, it's a story of the lives and especially the deaths from plague in their times. The story is told from the viewpoint of Agnes, and there in lies its power.
- Actors:
- Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Zac Wishart, James Lintern, Joe Alwyn, Justine Mitchell, Eva Wishart, Effie Linnen, Emily Watson, David Wilmot, Freya Hannan-Mills, Dainton Anderson, Louisa Harland, Elliot Baxter, Faith Delaney, Smylie Bradwell, Laura Guest, John MacKay, Jacobi Jupe, Olivia Lynes
- Directors:
- Chloé Zhao
- Producers:
- Nicolas Gonda, Pippa Harris, Liza Marshall, Sam Mendes, Steven Spielberg
- Writers:
- Chloé Zhao, Maggie O'Farrell
- Aka:
- Hamnet - A Vida Antes de Hamlet
- Genres:
- Drama
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Reviews (1) of Hamnet
Zhao Finds the Light in Loss - Hamnet review by griggs
Hamnet glows from within, illuminating the fragile spaces between love, loss, and legacy. Chloé Zhao turns Shakespeare’s family tragedy into poetry in motion — all candlelight, quiet, and the ache of things unsaid. Her direction feels both weightless and sure-footed, transforming domestic grief into something universal. Every silence carries the pulse of a world changed by absence.
Jessie Buckley is mesmerising as Agnes, her sorrow fierce and unguarded — a performance that burns with life. Opposite her, young Jacobi Jupe gives a quietly astonishing turn as Hamnet: not just a child marked by fate, but the spark that ignites legend itself.
Zhao shapes Maggie O’Farrell’s novel into something tactile and timeless — cinema that breathes. Hamnet isn’t just about mourning; it’s about how love survives its own ending. A masterpiece that whispers where others would wail.