Hamnet

Chloé Zhao: Hamnet (US/GB 2025) with Jessie Buckley (Agnes) and Paul Mescal (Will, William Shakespeare).

Hamnet (title in Finland) / Hamnet (title in Sweden).

    Fiche technique (Wikipédia): 

US/GB © 2025 Focus Features LLC.

Sociétés de production : Amblin Entertainment, Hera Pictures, Neal Street Productions et Book of Shadows. Production : Pippa Harris, Liza Marshall, Sam Mendes et Steven Spielberg. Production déléguée : Laurie Borg, Nicolas Gonda et Kristie Macosko Krieger.

Réalisation : Chloé Zhao

Scénario : Maggie O'Farrell et Chloé Zhao, d'après le roman Hamnet de Maggie O'Farrell

Photographie : Łukasz Żal. Format : couleur.

Décors : Fiona Crombie

Costumes : Malgosia Turzanska

Musique : Max Richter

Montage : Chloé Zhao

    Cast (Wikipedia):

Jessie Buckley as Agnes Shakespeare, William's wife

Faith Delaney as young Agnes

Paul Mescal as William Shakespeare, Agnes' husband

Emily Watson as Mary Shakespeare, William's mother

Joe Alwyn as Bartholomew Hathaway, Agnes' brother

Smylie Bradwell as young Bartholomew

Jacobi Jupe as Hamnet Shakespeare, William & Agnes' son & Judith's twin

Olivia Lynes as Judith Shakespeare, William & Agnes' younger daughter & Hamnet's twin

Justine Mitchell as Joan Hathaway, Agnes' stepmother

David Wilmot as John Shakespeare, William's father

Bodhi Rae Breathnach as Susanna Shakespeare, William & Agnes' older daughter

Freya Hannan-Mills as Eliza Shakespeare, William's sister (based on Joan)

James Skinner as Gilbert Shakespeare, William's younger brother

Elliot Baxter as Richard Shakespeare, William's younger brother

Dainton Anderson as Edmond Shakespeare, William's youngest brother

Louisa Harland as Rowan Hathaway, Agnes' mother

Noah Jupe as the actor who plays Hamlet in Hamlet

Raphael Goold as the actor who plays Horatio in Hamlet

Shaun Mason as the actor who plays Claudius in Hamlet

Matthew Tennyson as the actor who plays Gertrude in Hamlet

El Simons as the actor who plays Ophelia in Hamlet

Clay Milner Russell as the actor who plays Laertes in Hamlet

Sam Woolf as the actor who plays Bernardo in Hamlet

Hera Gibson as the actor who plays Francisco in Hamlet

Jack Shalloo as the actor who plays Marcellus in Hamlet

Javier Marzan as the actor who plays The Fool in Hamlet

Zac Wishart as Joan's older son, Agnes' stepbrother

James Lintern as Joan's younger son, Agnes' stepbrother

Eva Wishart as Joan's older daughter, Agnes' stepsister

Effie Linnen as Joan's younger daughter, Agnes' stepsister

Laura Guest as a midwife

John Mackay as a Edward Woolmer, the local priest

Albert McCormick as Boy in window

Eliah Arnstjerna as Drum player

Edward Anderson as Flute player

    Durée : 125 minutes

    Langue originale : anglais

    Genre : drame

    Sociétés de distribution : Focus Features (États-Unis), Universal Pictures (international)

    Dates de sortie :

États-Unis : 29 août 2025 (festival de Telluride) ; 28 novembre 2025 (sortie limitée) ; 9 janvier 2026 (sortie nationale)

Canada : septembre 2025 (festival de Toronto)

France : 21 janvier 2026

Finland: 30 January 2026 - distributor: Finnkino Oy - Finnish / Swedish subtitles Minna Franssila / Frej Grönholm

Viewed at Tennispalatsi Luxe 6, Salomonkatu 15, 00100 Helsinki, 30 Jan 2026

Telluride Film Festival 29 Aug 2025: Made possible by a donation from Daniel & Mary James. Bilge Ebiri: "Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning, enormously moving 2020 novel about the death of William Shakespeare’s only son is a story of devastating loss and transference in the age of plague. Will (Paul Mescal) is a daydreaming tutor on the verge of becoming the greatest playwright of the English language, and Agnes (Jessie Buckley, who is the soul of the film) is a spirited, independent-minded mother experiencing the deepest of suffering. Much has been surmised about Shakespeare’s life and family, and the death of 11-year-old Hamnet not long before the writing of Hamlet has always been particularly ripe for speculation. Zhao (from a screenplay she wrote with O’Farrell herself) finds in the text of the play raw traces of all-consuming sorrow, shame, and guilt. HAMNET offers a vision of how Shakespeare, a romantic with sharpening ambition, created art in the face of all-consuming tragedy. And it provides a vital and necessary new reading of his greatest work." –BE (U.K., 2025, 125m) In person: Chloé Zhao, Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal

AA: Chloé Zhao's Hamnet is a film of quality, a heritage film and a prestige film in the same current as Shakespeare in Love (GB/US 1998) produced by Miramax starring Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow, but it is a different love story than this imagined account of William Shakespeare's family and children.

The stars are great: Jessie Buckley as Agnes (Anne) and Paul Mescal as Will, as well as the rest of the cast. The production values are of the highest order. Hamnet is an excellent entertainment film.

Chloé Zhao evoked Shakespeare already in Nomadland, in which Fern (Frances McDormand) recites his sonnets and Macbeth's monologues.

Nomadland is for me one of the greatest movies of the century. Chloé Zhao revisited the Western genre and merged it with the modernist legacy of existential alienation, energizing it all in contemporary context, complete with Amazon storage halls.

In Hamnet she is the perfect professional, but I miss her unique current of energy and originality.