By Lisa Richwine and Danielle Broadway BEVERLY HILLS, California, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Dark comedy "One Battle After Another" and "Hamnet," a story about William Shakespeare's grief over the death of his son,

Arts editor Nina Nannar speaks to the director and stars of the film, which tells the largely unknown story of William Shakespeare and his family.

The Oscar-winning director's Golden Globes weekend also included a Hollywood Hills screening and star-studded reception.

It is poised to sweep Oscar season, but Chloé Zhao’s tale of Shakespearean grief – starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal – is less a masterpiece than a blunt spade designed to whack you over the head until you weep from the pain,

Jessie Buckley, already the Best Actress Oscar frontrunner, is remarkable as William Shakespeare’s wife Agnes in Chloé Zhao’s speculative grief drama

BEVERLY HILLS, US (Agencies): Asia celebrated after the Golden Globes ended with a bang as Chloe Zhao's Shakespeare drama "Hamnet" took home the top prize for Best Film – Drama.

In terms of the score, composer Max Richter says that when Will washes off the clay, “He just sort of breaks to pieces. This is the almost darkened version of this choral, vocal cloud, which we’ve had from the beginning, connected to Agnes and nature. But it’s almost like the cloud of a moonless night. So it’s kind of super dark.”

I was talking to a friend about Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet recently, about how its central conflict is that of a father – who just happens to be William Shakespeare, who just happens to be played by Paul Mescal – whose creative life and career is so consuming that it causes him to make miss out on key moments in his children’s lives (and crucially,