HAMNET

Hamnet, from the Academy Award® award-winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, tells the powerful love story that formed the inspiration for Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece Hamlet. Young Agnes and William - she a healer, he a writer - fall head over heels for each other, despite the different worlds in which they grew up and their divergent characters. When fate strikes, their built-up life is completely turned upside down. Terwijl William seeks refuge in writing what he thinks will be his magnum opus - Hamlet - Agnes falls into a hopeless black hole. A new film by Chloé Zhao (Nomadland), that sounds like music to the ears of every film lover. And rightly so, because Hamnet has proven to be the film sensation of the spring. A fictionalized historical drama about the life of William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal), the relationship with his wife Agnes (a top role for Jessie Buckley, who recently won her first Oscar for it!) and the painful events that led to the creative process of one of the most famous literary works of all time, the tragedy Hamlet. Based on the book of the same name and at least just as popular by the North-Ierse Maggie O'Farrell. Press: ''At its core, ‘Hamnet’ is an unadulterated melodrama, but one of the most sublime level. Only in the last quarter of an hour do you realize that Zhao has been building for almost two hours towards a shot that is so beautiful and cathartic that we were gasping for air in our seats.'' ★★★★ - Humo ''Zhoa deals a hammer blow with Hamnet. Buckley's raw performance cuts deep. It is impossible not to feel with your whole being for her grief, her yearning for redemption.'' ★★★★ - De Standaard ''Chloé Zhao bounces back with the poignant ‘Hamnet’'' ★★★★ - Knack Focus ''Write it down: an Oscar for Buckley. And if you've seen the film, you'll say: deserved!'' - VRT News ''A grand meditation on art's great capacity'' ★★★★ - The Guardian