I watched Hamnet on the screening on Monday at 8:50 pm at the Toronto International Film Festival, in a theater that, according to the latest act, was filled with spectators openly crying. I was familiar with the general story of William Shakespeare's personal life and read his play "Hamlet" for several years; I haven't read the novel "Hamet" on which this movie was basedHowever, it was therefore unprepared to suffer so much heart attack, so early in the morning.

"Hamet" may not have been a pleasant viewing experience, but it was powerful. Paul Mescal (played by the famous Bard) and Esses Buckley (which plays his tragic wife Agnes, the film's main character) and both offer a view of sadness. Have tore you with an act two, and will only take place from there. There is also a particularly brutal use of Max Richter's "Day Light", thrown into this film, a violin evaluation that is Basically a cheat code to make viewers suffocate and blow their nose. This is a movie with a seemingly goal - to make you cry - and it takes it out without looks too lavish or manipulative.

A huge jurisdiction showing Hamnet's melodrama is a relief for director Chloe Haao's fans, a director whose reputation has hit a hit in 2021 with the release of Windley. That movie about Marvel Studios' superhero was Haao's first feature film, which was not filled with mass critical recognition, which makes sense because she was the first feature film of her that was not particularly good.

There were certainly parts of "eternities" that captured a similar spark to Nomadland or the "driver", but for the most part, it was too crowded. He felt as if there was a collision between Marvel's film's sensibilities (with his insistence on unusual humor and constant placement for future films) and Haao's sensitivity, who preferred to maintain things serious, personal and independent. But the biggest problem was that this was one of Marvel's few films that should have been a TV show instead of the other way around; His 10 main characters deserved more than just two and a half -hour film shared among them.

Eternals was not the first time to overturn a promising, critically respected director when they tried to make a mainstream studio film. The story of the overwhelming "windmills" feels similar to the story of Duna Lynch's "Duna" in 1984. Lynch tried to make a mainstream blockbuster, failed, and fortunately returned to his more personal projects that remained faithful to his sensitivity. In a way, the failure with "Dina" was The best thing that ever happened to LynchBecause it helped him understand exactly what he wanted from his artistic career and taught him not to try to play the big studio game again.

Although the "eternity" was not a clear bust that is "Duna", Haao seems to descend the same path of monitoring her failure of the blockbuster with a welcome return to her indie roots. "Hamnet" is almost polar contrary to the "eternity", especially how it focuses on a small team than on a widespread chaos of characters. She tells a unique story with a sharp focus; The film does not feel like fighting the boundaries of his genre or duration. It is a return to the form that strongly implies that Marvel is the problem with her last film, not Haao herself.

Similar to the "blue velvet" proved that Lynch was not going anywhere ", Hamnet proves that Haao is here to stay. It helps it, similar to Lynch, rejoicing "Dunone" in his catastrophic consequences, haao himself seems to understand That the "eternity" did not work. In a A recent interview with Vanity Fair, She offered her to take over how she entered the MCC in the south, and how she prepared her to make Hamet as good as it could have been:

''The Ethernians had, as an unlimited amount of money and resources. And here we have a street angle that we can afford, to (stand) Stratford .... "Windley" there were not many restrictions, and that is actually quite dangerous. Since we only have that street angle (in "hamnet"), all of a sudden it has meaning. "

"Hamnet" hit the limited theaters on November 27, 2025 and expanded to national level on December 12, 2025.