Hamnet

[LlynTegid]

Hoping to see it at the weekend, Jessie Buckley has been excellent in anything of hers I have seen.

Will be interested in other's thoughts once they have seen it.

Saw it today. Thought it was beautiful. Harrowing, enchanting, raw and devastating. But I love how Agnes grief transformed as she watched the play. It was wonderful. Buckley was spectacular- the emotional depth she conveyed is worthy of awards.

Yeah. Liked it. Wept a bit. Might go again. It felt like the book felt.
I have just read the last several pages of the book and last evening, back from the cinema, had to get out the Shakespeare and read the line when Hamlet dies, about 'flights of angels'.
Thank you for the interesting fact about the brothers. Now I'll go and look for the cast list.

And the Jupes are the sons of the actress who played Julie Carp in Coronation Street!

I.loved the book. Film was ok. I would not be recommending friends to watch it if they enjoyed the book however.

I loved the book and the film. I thought Jessie Buckley was sensational. I was really moved by her performance, and cried multiple times. I found it really immersive but can also understand the points about it being a bit flat.

My husband had no idea it was about Shakespeare's family until a bit of the way through when there were quotes. I probably should have told him…

I'm just back from seeing it. I have never read the book. I enjoyed the film but I didn't love it. It was beautifully shot and Jessie Buckley was great but somehow I felt it was lacking something. I didn't find it weepy but having also lost a child myself I think I just feel that emotion deep down but I don't let it bubble up as it is such an ingrained part of me. I went to see Song Sung Blue during the week and found that to pack a far more emotional punch. I liked it much.better of the two films.

What is Song Sang Blue?

A film with Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson. True story about a couple who form a Neil Diamond tribute band and all their various trials and tribulations. I loved it.

Thought Jessie Buckley was great... but rest of film, largely underwhelmed. Didn't feel it had the emotional impact of the book. Best bit was the Hamlet performance at the end

I loved the book and felt the film missed the mark. Acting and cinematography was incredible though.

How do you feel they could’ve included more emotional depth in the film? I thought it had plenty!

Hamnets death in the book was far more intense and moving for me. You also got a deeper understanding of Agnes character I felt.

The book showed how closely Agnes and her MIL worked together and how entwined they were with each other, which I thought was a really realistic way of depicting how women who actually don’t want to live together and don’t naturally get along end up hugely valuing each other and becoming completely co dependent in a situation where men are not involved in the domestic sphere. When the chips are down women tend to really show up for each other.

It was extremely tense watching!
I’m usually a crier, but this didn’t set me off.
Love JB
Don’t really get the hype about PM
The kids were great actors
The cinematography was beautiful
I didn’t LOVE it and probably only went to see it because of the huge amount of promotion it’s received
Harrowing subject matter
It did indeed feel like an exercise in emotional manipulation to me

Same for me. Shame, as I enjoyed the book and was so looking forward to the film as usually really rate Jessie Buckley.

Oh my goodness, I could have written this. I saw both of these films and agree, that Song Sung Blue made me more emotional.

I agree. There was a poignancy to SSB that wasn’t there were with the rather dry and ‘worthy’ Hamnet. As time goes on I feel less impressed with Jessie Buckley’s performance.

I went to see it last night, I hadn’t read the book. Afterwards my friend who had explained why the F was in debt and some other aspects of the book which if explored properly in the film would have made it much more three dimensional and engaging.

In the end I was a bit fed up with Jessie Buckleys performance- but I think that’s because there was so much focus on her and the main themes of Elizabethan England being dirty, herbs being interesting and umbilical cords not having been invented at that point.

I wasn’t hugely impressed with Paul Mescal and thought there was a lack of chemistry between them. Emily Watson was as ever amazing and were the child performers and the actor playing Hamlet.

I thought it was very lazy film making to show so much of Hamlet on stage and unlike some here, I found the repeated panning to her annoying after a while, particularly as they made it such a long scene.

I did cry a tiny amount and was annoyed at myself for doing so.

It wasn’t dreadful, but certainly not amazing.

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I enjoyed it, mostly - first half slow, second half got into gear. Beautiful cinematography. I loved Paul Mescal, particularly on stage as the ghost but underwhelmed by Jessie Buckley, although I have previously been very impressed.

I’m really baffled as to how people can be underwhelmed by Jessie Buckley in this.

To be a person who goes to see 'Hamnet' again and wonder if it would have been better with a little less of Jessie Buckley in close-up, or to go to the transmission of 'Hamlet' on 22nd, braving bright new things buggering it up, that is the question.
Yes, 'both' could be an answer.
I once had a ticket to see a film of 'Hamlet' with Mel Gibson in the title role, but I was in hospital that night, I think - accident - and missed it. It's been on TV since then.

There was a thread on chat a few weeks ago, asking what Shakespeare we had studied at school. I forgot that we read 'Hamlet', not for an exam, just in the class.
Sometimes I am almost overwhelmed by the thought of all the books we read in a lifetime and how many poems, and how many pieces of music we know and how many wonderful scenes we've seen in films and on littler screens. Such enrichment we have, and long ago, even if they couldn't read, people made plays and told stories.
After that philosophical reverie, exits right.

Saw it tonight with DH. Read the book years ago and loved it. I liked the film and can see why Jessie Buckley’s performance is getting all the awards. It is beautifully shot and lit and I liked that it was grimy and dirty as it should be. I just felt a bit short changed on a lot of the detail in the book. I admit it did get me, especially the scenes at The Globe and Paul Mescal’s performance on the stage.

However, nothing prepared me for Orla McCool playing Agnes’ mother. 😂

Don’t hate me but I found the actor and her character increasingly irritating.

I thought the child actors amazing. The first third of the film dragged a bit but gradually improved especially when it hit London. The actor playing Hamlet was sensational. I could have done without all the Jessica Buckley close-ups and long, lingering scenes on her.

The cinematography was beautiful and my DH now wants to visit Stratford upon Avon ( I know it wasn’t filmed there) which is an amazing outcome as he doesn’t really “do” UK trips, unlike me

I did attempt the book a year or so ago but it didn’t engage me. This has motivated me to try again