

The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
Acting
Jessie Buckley's face should be studied in film schools.
Direction
Zhao finds cosmic terror in a muddy Stratford field.
Cinematography
Magic hour shots that'll ruin regular movies for you.

Director
Chloé Zhao
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Maggie O'Farrell's novel reclaimed Agnes Hathaway from 'illiterate farmer's daughter' to herbalist and possible business brain—historians still fight about it.
The real Hamnet and Hamlet were variants of the same name in Elizabethan England; Shakespeare essentially named two sons the same thing.