AwardsWatch - Jessie Buckley and Chloé Zhao Q&A for ‘Hamnet’ at the 48th Mill Valley Film Festival [VIDEO]

Jessie Buckley and Chloé Zhao Q&A for ‘Hamnet’ at the 48th Mill Valley Film Festival [VIDEO]

Actress Jessie Buckley and Academy Award-winning director Chloé Zhao discuss their film Hamnet on opening night of the 48th Mill Valley Film Festival with MVFF Director of Programming Zoe Elton.

Based on the novel of the same name by Maggie O’Farrell, Hamnet tells the story of Agnes and William Shakespeare and the death of their only son, Hamnet, and how it became the origin of Shakespeare’s most recognizable work, Hamlet. Zhao directs and co-wrote the script with O’Farrell, which co-stars Academy Award nominees Paul Mescal and Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn.

The film won the Toronto International Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award and was selected as the best film of the Telluride Film Festival (where it had its world premiere) by both press and industry voters as well as the general public.

Focus Features will release Hamnet in New York and Los Angeles on November 27 and nationwide on December 12.

You can read the AW review of Hamnet by Sophia Ciminello below.

‘Hamnet’ Review: Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal Will Break Your Heart in Chloé Zhao’s Timeless Tale of Profound Loss and Boundless Love [A] Telluride

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.