Chloé Zhao’s new film Hamnet has premiered to rave evaluations – and it is already getting Oscar buzz.
Primarily based on the award-winning novel of the identical identify by Maggie O’Farrell (who co-wrote the movie’s screenplay with Zhao), Hamnet stars Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley as Sixteenth-century playwright William Shakespeare and his spouse Agnes because the couple navigates the dying of their 11-year-old son. The solid additionally contains Joe Alwyn and Emily Watson.
The film had its world premiere at Telluride Movie Pageant final week (August 29) and has since debuted to an ideal rating of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes based mostly on 12 evaluations. Vulture calls Hamnet “probably the most devastating film I’ve seen in years”, whereas Selection says it is “so emotionally uncooked as to be virtually excruciating at occasions.”
Buckley’s efficiency as Agnes can also be attracting lots of reward, with The Wrap writing: “Buckley is nothing lower than magical. She will be able to singlehandedly break your coronary heart with one look or gesture and is, put merely, good.”
Hamnet is Zhao’s first film since 2021’s Eternals, which wasn’t wherever close to as well-received – the Marvel film, starring Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Angelina Jolie, Barry Keoghan, and Kumail Nanjiani as a gaggle of immortal, superpowered beings, has a rating of 47% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Earlier than Eternals, Zhao made the Oscar-winning Nomadland, a couple of widow who leaves her life behind to journey across the US in a van, which took dwelling the gongs for Greatest Image, Greatest Director, and Greatest Actress for star Frances McDormand. She additionally directed the dramas The Rider and Songs My Brother My Taught Me.
Hamnet arrives in theaters on November 27. Within the meantime, rise up to hurry with our information to the remainder of this 12 months’s largest film launch dates.
