Golden Globes, Hamnet
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Bugonia, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Jay Kelly, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another and Sentimental Value were up for Best Picture Drama.
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
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.
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Hamnet is not your average Shakespeare biopic
If there is anything that years of experiments in the genre have taught us, it’s that it’s difficult to make a good film about a great man. The entrants in this genre, from A Beautiful Mind (2001) to A Complete Unknown (2024),
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.”