Hamnet
After losing their son Hamnet to plague, Agnes and William Shakespeare grapple with grief in 16th-century England. A healer, Agnes must find strength to care for her surviving children while processing her devastating loss.
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"Hamnet is my favorite movie of the year. What a beautiful script. This movie is a tearjerker. It's the most emotional I've been watching a movie in years. The performances from Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal are some of the best performances this decade. It also includes some of the best child acting I've ever seen. A film about love and loss that hits all the right notes perfectly. It even manages to have some really funny moments as well. The cinematography is beautiful, the editing is smooth, and the score is phenomenal. Chloe Zhao knocked it out of the park directing. It&apo..."
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The film and the source novel are both works of fiction, and the impact of the death of his son on Shakespeare's later works - including Hamlet - remains the subject of much academic discussion. However, the film is largely faithful to known events in Shakespeare's life: the 18-year-old Shakespeare married 26-year-old Anne (or Agnes) Hathaway in 1582; it was a "shotgun wedding" as the couple's first child was born six months later; Hamnet was born in 1585 and died in 1596; the original Globe Theatre opened in 1599; and the play Hamlet was written at some point between 1599 and 1601.
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After losing their son Hamnet to plague, Agnes and William Shakespeare grapple with grief in 16th-century England. A healer, Agnes must find strength to care for her surviving children while processing her devastating loss.