Hamnet

Second film I’ve watched by Chloé Zhao; I watched Nomadland a few years back. Both solid!

I learned that Hamnet and Hamlet are the same name? Presumably they went with ‘Hamnet’ for this one to underline that it’s a different story.

This was a beautiful film that knows how to tug at the heartstrings. However, given that both lead characters are light on ‘expressing their thoughts and feelings using words’, and that movies are not the best medium to express a character’s inner life, I left with the feeling that I did not really understand them at much depth… Which might have been intentional, but fell a tad flat for me.