Jency Reviews: Hamnet

I wonder if every actress after watching Jessie Buckley’s performance in Hamnet wish they were her and believes that it would be such a dream to play such a role. I loved Chloé Zhao’s vision and adaptation of this amazing book made into a movie, Hamnet. When I first saw the title, it struck me with so much interest because it seems like they had spelled Hamlet wrong, and I wanted to know what the movie could possibly be about. I know that they must have paid millions of dollars in advertising ads because my Instagram feed was full of Jessie Buckley’s & Paul Mescal’s interviews with clips from the movie that were so intriguing and beautiful that I couldn’t help my self from running to the theater in the middle of the day on a Friday to see the movie by myself.

When I come across a movie I'm so excited to see I usually take myself on an “artist date”— and yes I am referencing Julia Cameron’s book The Artist’s Way. I take myself on an artists’ date because I want to fully be able to watch the movie with with no interruptions and cry when I want to and get swept up in the movie with no need to keep an anchor to reality. Little did I know when I sat down to watch this movie it’d be healing and provide revelation about how to create art from grief. The movie made it feel as though grief could spur you on to do some beautiful creative things if you let the art flow through you. Because I don’t want to give away the third line, I will just say I was so riveted with inspiration and grief mixed together that I cried my eyes out for a good 15 minutes while the credits rolled on the screen.

The way this movie feels so enraptured by nature & laws of humanity makes you want to see it over and over to catch the nuances of the film. I loved how simple, yet perfect, the costume was. Jessie Buckley’s red dress sat among the green forest was something my eyes could devour for years to come. Her raw performance made me want to allow myself the freedom to explore truth as an actor in a new way. We watch her experience every emotion that a woman goes through while she experiences marriage and childbirth and her children growing up and enjoying their childhood and all the things that come with motherhood in such a beautiful way. It almost felt like you were watching a mother bear in nature with her children. As a woman who has longed to be a mother it stirred up in me a passion for being present with the children that are in my life and wanting to take them out into nature to experience God’s gifts to us— and get off my cellphone.

Shakespeare is a famous person that we know a lot about. But the novel that Maggie O’Ferell wrote was a fresh new light seeing him as a new father. He felt so real and less mystical, tortured by his ability to write, and I think all artists will relate to his cycle of frustration and pleasure in his art form.

Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley in Hamnet

I love historical drama and this movie could not be done bettering the way they tackled location an costuming and music by contemporary composer Max Richter, which is earthshattering, and I just read online that he actually played the music on-set for the actors to get into character and feel so connected to the story which sounds like the most dreamy way to make a movie and I hope to do this with my own composer Greg Deiulio some day.

I will see this movie again and expeirnec it in a new way each time. With my favorite movies I usually see them 5 times in the theater. This movie needs to be seen in the theater, so if you can catch it while you can I highly recommend.

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