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Chloé Zhao on grief, death-doula training and making 'Hamnet' — Static01.nyt.com

Chloé Zhao on grief, death-doula training and making 'Hamnet'

Chloé Zhao, 43, the filmmaker behind Nomadland and five feature films, discussed her career, her latest film Hamnet and her personal preoccupations in a New York Times interview. Hamnet, an adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel about the death of Shakespeare’s son, won the Golden Globe for best

Debate over Hamnet highlights grief-on-screen tropes and recurring bird imagery — I.guim.co.uk

Debate over Hamnet highlights grief-on-screen tropes and recurring bird imagery

A Guardian essay asks whether Chloé Zhao’s film Hamnet is “grief‑porn” or “grief‑art” and considers what that debate reveals about portrayals of women, cinematic emotion and a recurring bird motif in recent films. The piece contrasts two readings of grief on screen: grief‑porn, meaning emotionally manipulative

Chloé Zhao's Hamnet takes Best Motion Picture — Drama at 2026 Golden Globes — Static0.colliderimages.com

Chloé Zhao's Hamnet takes Best Motion Picture — Drama at 2026 Golden Globes

Collider reports Hamnet has won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture — Drama at the 2026 Golden Globes, taking one of the night’s biggest awards after a season where the category never fully settled around a single frontrunner. The nominees represented six very different approaches to serious filmmaking. Hamnet

Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet wins Golden Globe for best drama — Static01.nyt.com

Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet wins Golden Globe for best drama

“Hamnet” won the Golden Globe for best motion picture, drama, a victory that the Times said could improve the film’s chances heading into the Oscars in March. The film was directed by Chloé Zhao, who co-wrote the screenplay with Maggie O’Farrell, adapting O’Farrell’s prizewinning novel. Jessie

Guardian picks: Industry, Hamnet, The Ten Year Affair and The Cribs — I.guim.co.uk

Guardian picks: Industry, Hamnet, The Ten Year Affair and The Cribs

The Guardian’s culture roundup this week recommends picks across TV, film, books and albums, singling out Industry for television, Hamnet for film, The Ten Year Affair for books and The Cribs: Selling a Vibe for albums. Industry, available on BBC iPlayer from Monday, is described as the banking drama

Jessie Buckley hailed for role in Hamnet as awards season builds — I.guim.co.uk

Jessie Buckley hailed for role in Hamnet as awards season builds

Jessie Buckley has been widely praised for her portrayal of Agnes (Anne) Hathaway in Chloé Zhao’s film Hamnet, a meditation on love and grief that charts William Shakespeare and his wife’s anguish after the death of their 11-year-old son. The film’s emotional force is said to be

Jessie Buckley says she and Paul Mescal took a tantric workshop to prepare for Hamnet — People.com

Jessie Buckley says she and Paul Mescal took a tantric workshop to prepare for Hamnet

People reports that Jessie Buckley said she and costar Paul Mescal completed a tantric workshop to prepare for their roles in Hamnet. Mescal, 29, and Buckley, 36, portray William Shakespeare and his wife, Agnes, in the film adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's novel, and both spoke with

Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet imagines Hamlet’s origin in parents’ grief — I.guim.co.uk

Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet imagines Hamlet’s origin in parents’ grief

Chloé Zhao’s film Hamnet frames the origin of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the imagined anguish of William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes (or Anne) Hathaway after the death of their son Hamnet at age 11 in 1596. The screenplay was co-written by Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell and is