It has been four years since Chloé Zhao’s last film, the ambitious Marvel blockbuster Eternals, a cosmic tale that reached for the heavens but never quite found its grounding. With Hamnet, adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s celebrated novel, Zhao returns to a more intimate realm, shaped by stories and poetry, by the fragile beauty of ordinary lives moving through nature, love, sorrow, and death. Here, she rediscovers the rhythm that has always defined her work: a gaze attuned to the silence between moments, where emotion and landscape become one.
Read my full review here: https://www.indiependent.co.uk/bfi-london-film-festival-2025-hamnet-review/
09
Nov
2025
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